Afshin Salek <Afshin.Ardakani at Sun.COM> wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Afshin Salek wrote: >>> This is supposed to be a generic and expandable mechanism. NFS/DFS >>> referrals are just primary consumers of this mechanism at this >>> point so this is not a protocol specific mechanism to have a per >>> protocol extended attribute that are hard coded before hand. >>> >>> If we want to use extended attributes then we either have to reserve >>> some namespace or use an extended attribute with a reserved name as an >>> index. >> >> But you are already heading down that path by having a new system >> attribute. You are also reserving namespace in symlink formats with the >> case as specified so you don't get out of that problem. >> > > We are not really reserving any namespace because the format > that is proposed here cannot be a valid target for a regular symlink.
The format may not be usable under normal circumstances but we are reserving it and the OS will take specific action if it is encountered. Alan
