Re: File conglomerations

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:16:19 +0200


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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