[Labeled-nfs] Current development prototype patches.

[Matthew N. Dodd]

Casey Schaufler wrote:
> --- James Morris <jmorris at namei.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
>>> I would like to ask opinions on a less EA centric mechanism for 
>>> setting labels from userland.  As we're pursuing a labeling
>>> solution that does not rely on EAs for persistent storage (from
>>> the client's point of view) it becomes difficult to shoehorn
>>> things so that userland tools work as expected.
> 
> Why would you do that? The xattr infrastructure works very well for 
> labeling. Labeling was in fact the only use to which it was put 
> during it's initial Unix development at SGI.

Because we're looking at passing NFSv4 labels via getattr/setattr.

(It occurs to me that this may not have been stated to everyone in a 
clear manner.)

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Matthew N. Dodd <Matthew.Dodd at sparta.com>
Principal Engineer, ISSO, SRD