Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:16:19 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: File conglomerations |
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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:26:55AM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> NFS. You would bring that up. We broke down and wrote an extension > to NFS3 to do generic extended attribute operations. It's not very > complicated, it's the way you'd do it if you were working from a > blank coding form, but the protocol purists shake their heads and > tisk at it. As others have suggested, NFS may just not be the right > scheme for an arbitrarily extended attribute world.
Maybe we should make shure NFSv4 get things right:
RFC 2624:
Title: NFS Version 4 Design Considerations Author(s): S. Shepler Status: Informational Date: June 1999 Mailbox: spencer.shepler@eng.sun.com Pages: 22 Characters: 52891 Updates/Obsoletes/See Also: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-nfsv4-designconsider-03.txt
(Haven't yet read it ...)
> BTW: All spelling errors are mine, and should not reflect on > my employer or any other individual.
All those disclaimers they have to have in the US, tss, tss ;-)
Ralf
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