[RFC] Security Enhanced NFS (SENFS) Requirements - draft 05

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 01:45:45PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > I'd love to see having support for this protocol on Linux.  There's
> > a lot of demand both for security label and just general user extended
> > attributes on NFS.
> 
> NFSv4 has named attributes, which are modeled on Solaris subfile-style 
> extended attributes.

Which is exactly the problem.  As usual NFSv4 has choosen the most braindead of
all available models.  That's why this protocol sucks so badly.