2015•Unpublished venueRequires access
Support for File System Extended Attributes in NFSv4
Manoj Naik, Marc Eshel
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Abstract
This document proposes extensions to existing NFSv4 operations to
allow file extended attributes (here forth also referred to as xattrs)
to be manipulated in the protocol. An xattr is a file system feature
that allows opaque metadata, not interpreted by the file system, to be
associated with files and directories and are supported by many modern
file systems. New file attributes are proposed to allow clients to
query the server for xattr support, and new operations to get and set
xattrs on file system objects.