Extended attributes over NFSv3

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:46:40AM -0400, Jean-Francois Bouchard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Our backup system rely on extended attributes (ex :
> 
> getfattr -d tzdata-2007h-1.el4.noarch.rpm
> # file: tzdata-2007h-1.el4.noarch.rpm
> user.content_hash="1,1191668578.0000,458656,F1D72D65122D89C0009625C6414F6BFC")
> 
> to work. I would like to know how they are handled in NFSv4 ? (at my
> knowledge, in NFSv3, there is no support)

There are currently no plans for support.  We did some work on this a
few years ago and I think the consensus was that this would need
protocol extensions (beyond the "named attribute" support already in
nfsv4).

--b.

> 
> Thank you,
> 
> --
> Jean-Francois Bouchard
> Idilia inc.
> 
> 
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