Technical Summary
This document describes an OPTIONAL feature extending the NFSv4
protocol which allows extended attributes (hereinafter also referred
to as xattrs) to be interrogated and manipulated using NFSv4 clients.
Xattrs are provided by a file system to associate opaque metadata,
not interpreted by the file system, with files and directories. Such
support is present in many modern local file systems. New file
attributes are provided to allow clients to query the server for
xattr support, with that support consisting of new operations to get
and set xattrs on file system objects.
Working Group Summary
The working group has been supportive of this work with little to no
contention over the approach and resultant content.
Document Quality
The quality of this document is high and is ready to move forward.
Personnel
Document Shepherd: Spencer Shepler
Area Director: Spencer Dawkins