Bug 1419446 - [RFE] Allow using an external DB file for extended attributes (xattr)
Summary: [RFE] Allow using an external DB file for extended attributes (xattr)
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: GlusterFS
Classification: Community
Component: posix
Version: mainline
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Reported: 2017-02-06 07:51 UTC by Jiri Belka
Modified: 2023-09-14 03:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-11-19 05:20:45 UTC
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Description Jiri Belka 2017-02-06 07:51:41 UTC 
Description of problem:

Allow using an external DB file for extended attributes (xattr) like Samba does[1], this would bring glusterfs on OSes which do not support xattr.

[1] https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages/vfs_xattr_tdb.8.html

I'd be happy to test diffs for this feature on OpenBSD.
Comment 1 Niels de Vos 2017-02-14 12:32:41 UTC 
This should be relatively straight forward to implement in the posix xlator. I'm also pretty sure Manu would approve of this for the NetBSD environments, it also needs some special configuration for xattrs.

Pranith, do you have any concerns?
Comment 2 Jiri Belka 2017-02-17 11:49:23 UTC 
(In reply to Niels de Vos from comment #1)
> This should be relatively straight forward to implement in the posix xlator.
> I'm also pretty sure Manu would approve of this for the NetBSD environments,
> it also needs some special configuration for xattrs.
> 
> Pranith, do you have any concerns?

An OS where this could be tested is OpenBSD, it does support neither ACL nor XATTR.
Comment 3 Vijay Bellur 2018-11-19 05:26:59 UTC 
Migrated to github:

https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/581

Please follow the github issue for further updates on this bug.
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 03:53:13 UTC 
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days
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