On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 14:35, Mark Feldman wrote:
> 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?
No practical limit - they all need different names of course, the
organization of the entries is almost identical to directories.
I cannot say we do extensive testing of vast attribute spaces,
there tend never to be more than a handful at the most.
Steve
>
> 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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