Re: NFS V4 attributes proposal

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From: Conrad Minshall (conrad@apple.com)
Date: 11/30/98-09:08:23 PM Z 

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:08:23 -0800
From: Conrad Minshall <conrad@apple.com>
Subject: Re: NFS V4 attributes proposal

At 4:34 PM -0800 11/29/98, Robert Thurlow wrote:

>3) Extended attributes

>Support for extended attributes shall be optional but recommended.

Why optional?  This capability helps NFS be the transport for several
important filesystems.  Extended attribute capability already exists in
Microsoft's NTFS http://www.mvps.org/win32/ntfs/index.html, in HFS+, the
new file system format Apple introduced with MacOS 8.1, and in UDF
http://www.osta.org/html/ostatech.html#udf.  (UDF is used with the various
DVD formats.  Grossly over-simplifying, UDF can be thought of as the next
generation, read-write ISO 9660.)


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