Alternate Data Stream Support in FreeBSD (was Re: O_XATTR support in FreeBSD?)

[Joshuah Hurst]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> Cedric Blancher wrote:
>> On 26 November 2013 13:27, Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
> The NFSv4 working group seems to have decided to add support for atomically
> set extended attributes (Linux, FreeBSD style) to a future minor revision,
> due to it not being possible to accurately emulate them with named attributes.

ABSOLUTELY not. Any such attempt will be voted down, as of NetApp,
Oracle, and others. The extended attributes are nonstandard and not
even backed by ANY other standard (e.g. POSIX, Single UNIX Standard).
This will not happen, except for vendor-specific extensions not part
of any NFSv4 RFC.

Whatever shit or FUD Linux may invent, Linux-style extended attributes
will NOT be part of the official NFS4.x *standard*

Josh