[Labeled-nfs] Current development prototype patches.

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 19:51 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> > > I agree. EAs over NFS are not very hard. Have you seen the SGI published
> > > xattr extension? It's not large or particularly complex, and it has 
> > > about 10 years exposure in the Unix environment.
> > 
> > It's extremly nice.  And SGI even released the xdr en/decoding files
> > under GPL a while ago.  A lot nicer than either the SUN NFSv3 ACL
> > extensions or the whole subfile bullshit added to NFSv4.
> 
> Ugh. Yet another RPC sideband protocol?

You suggested using this very sideband protocol yourself just in the
last week or two.  Perhaps it was in a moment of weakness.  I think you
also suggested sharing the connection in the same way that the acl
protocol does.

I don't recall your justification.  Perhaps it was just to avoid having
to add to the v4 protocol itself.  It'd seem simpler to me just to add
compound ops and pick some unused operation numbers for them, but I
don't know.

--b.