[Linux-cifsd-devel] [PATCH] cifsd: make xattr format of ksmbd compatible with samba's one

[Steve French]

FYI - I have rebased the cifsd-for-next branch onto 5.11-rc6

https://github.com/smfrench/smb3-kernel.git

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 4:46 PM Namjae Jeon via samba-technical
<samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> 2021-01-26 23:36 GMT+09:00, Stefan Metzmacher via samba-technical
> <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>:
> > Hi Namjae,
> Hi Metze,
> >
> >> Samba team request that ksmbd should make xattr format of ksmbd
> >> compatible
> >> with samba's one. When user replace samba with ksmbd or replace ksmbd
> >> with samba, The written attribute and ACLs of xattr in file should be
> >> used
> >> on both server. This patch work the following ones.
> >>  1. make xattr prefix compaible.
> >>     - rename creation.time and file.attribute to DOSATTRIB.
> >>     - rename stream. to DosStream.
> >>     - rename sd. to NTACL.
> >>  2. use same dos attribute and ntacl structure compaible with samba.
> >>  3. create read/write encoding of ndr functions in ndr.c to store ndr
> >>     encoded metadata to xattr.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Do you also have this a git commit in some repository?
> Yes, You can check github.com/cifsd-team/cifsd
> tree(https://github.com/cifsd-team/cifsd/commit/0dc106786d40457e276f50412ecc67f11422dd1e).
> And there is a cifsd-for-next branch in
> github.com/smfrench/smb3-kernel for upstream.
> I have made a patch for that git tree, but I haven't fully tested it yet...
> I'm planning to send a pull request to Steve this week after doing it.
> >
> > I played with ksmbd a bit in the last days.
> Cool.
> >
> > I can also test this commit and check if the resulting
> > data is compatible with samba.
> Great!  Let me know your opinion if there is something wrong:)
> Thank you so much for your help!
> >
> > metze
> >
> >
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve