Re: [PATCH 06/10] NFSv4: Add label recommended attribute and NFSv4flags

[James Morris]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:31:22AM -0400, David P. Quigley wrote:
> 
> > +#define NFS4_MAXLABELLEN	4096
> 
> Idle curiosity--why 4096?  (Why couldn't it be 16?  And how do we know
> people will never want 8192?)

I think I raised this a while back, too.

The maximum security label size on Linux is:

#define XATTR_SIZE_MAX 65536

Why arbitrarily limit this over the network?

Someone could have a valid local security label which can't be conveyed 
via NFS.



- James
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