How about limitations on the total number of EA's per file or the total
space they can take up per file. Could I have 200, 64K EA's per file? 500?
1000? 10000?
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Lord" <lord@xxxxxxx>
To: "Quang Nguyen (Ngo)" <quang.nguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: Extended Attributes
> On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 12:39, Quang Nguyen (Ngo) wrote:
> > What are the limitations on extended attributes when calling attr_set()
and
> > attr_setf()? How much space can each node hold, and what are the
> > side-effects?
>
> Each one can hold 64K of data. No side effects really - except it will
> take a little longer to remove the file.
>
> >
> > Does anyone know if other journaling file systems also support extended
> > attributes besides XFS?
>
> Given there is a patch for ext2, it is not inconceivble that ext3
> will support them at some point. Reiserfs will probably end up with
> them, or something like them, Hans liked multiple streams in a file.
> Not sure about jfs - it may on os2, but probably does not on Linux.
>
> Steve
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Quang
> >
> >
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