Spencer Shepler wrote: > > On May 30, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Timothy Haley - Sun Microsystem wrote: >> >> 2.0 OVERVIEW >> >> The Solaris CIFS project requires file system support for a number of >> "system" and opaque file attributes. For file systems that fully >> support CIFS, the system attributes will be present on all file >> system objects and the file system will need to update the >> attribute(s) as a result of various file system operations such as >> data written to a file. The CIFS server and application programs >> will also need to be able to query/update the attributes when >> needed. Additionally, the CIFS server will be using the Solaris >> extended attribute model for storing a number of opaque file >> attributes. ZFS will be the primary underlying file system for the >> CIFS server. >> >> In order to accommodate the existing extended attribute aware >> utilities in Solaris, the new attributes will be exposed via the >> existing Solaris extended attribute model. The new attributes will >> be grouped in a number of SUNWattr* files that will have multiple >> attributes in a single file composed as a packed nvlist. Since all > > I assume the attributes will be XDR packed.
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