Re: [PATCH 05/11] NFSv4: Add label recommended attribute and NFSv4flags

[Stephen Smalley]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:52 +1100, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, David P. Quigley wrote:
> 
> > +#define NFS4_MAXLABELLEN	255
> 
> I remember raising this before, but I think we need to try and find a 
> better way to implement this than always allocating labels of a fixed and 
> possibly too-small size.
> 
> What about perhaps starting with a statically allocated array of say 64 
> bytes (I can't see any labels on my system larger than that), and then 
> falling back to a a dynamic allocation of up to 32k if it turns out to be 
> too small ?  i.e. large labels are a slow path and there is no practical 
> limit on label size.

Yes, that would be my preference as well - there shouldn't be any
internal limits on the label size.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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