On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 07:28:35PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Mark Shellenbaum wrote: > >>Why SUNW Rather than org.opensolaris as the prefix ? The latter would > >>IMO be more appropriate today given these are OpenSolaris specific > >>rather than "Sun Microsystems Inc" specific. > >> > > > >The SUNW prefix was chosen because of some wording in fsattr(5) which > >states that the SUNW prefix would be used for Sun specific attributes. > >I'm fine with changing it to the following if you feel strongly about it. > > but this isn't a Sun application it is the OpenSolaris kernel.
>From the point of view of RFC3530 (NFSv4) it doesn't matter that it's the kernel using a given named attribute -- to RFC3530 the kernel looks like an application when it uses a named attribute. Yes, it seems rather silly that RFC3530 didn't reserve named attr namespaces for use by OS implementors, but IIRC that had to do with discouraging the use of OS-specific named attrs that could balkanize NFSv4 interop. > >OPENSOLARISattr_rw, and OPENSOLARISattr_ro > > Why OPENSOLARIS rather than the much more common reverse DNS domain > style that is used in so many other places ? org.opensolaris.attr_ro > org.opensolaris.attr_rw Whatever we use will be arbitrary. I don't like so many caps; I too prefer org.opensolaris.*. Nico --
