> 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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