[PATCH] Efficient xattr handling for VxFS

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 09:26:35AM +0000, Abhidnya Joshi wrote:
> Hi Jeremy, list,
> 
> Please find attached patch which handles storing xattrs in efficient way for Veritas File System (VxFS) using VxFS library.
> 
> This patch handles:
> 1.            Storing xattrs using VxFS library calls
> 2.            Handling backward compatibility where if xattrs are stored with old way then store them with new way .
> 3.            This makes use of vxfsmisc.so in user space which is provided by VxFS and is open sourced. It can be found at: http://www.veritas.com/community/downloads/vxfsmisc-library
> 
> This patch applies to Samba master. Please let me know your comments.

Can you add a link to the GPL library in a comment around the code
doing the dlopen?

Question: What happens if you have two shares with vxfs? Don't you
call dlopen() twice? Does that work fine?

Volker

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