On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 05:24:50PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > Also, how about storing referral data in a per-protocol extended > attribute instead of all of it as symlink contents? That would be much > cleaner since then: > > - the type of the object (symlink, dir, file...) becomes irrelevant > - one can export that object for some protocols, a referral for others > - that object could be a symlink with a /net path -- a very nice > fallback for NFSv3
I forgot one: - each per-protocol referral format might be simple enough that runat(1) can be the interface to this, so no need for a CLI in that case
