XFS filesystem setfacl has limitation?

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Wed Mar 7 20:40:53 CST 2012


On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:16:13PM +0100, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Wed, 7 Mar 2012 15:42:42 +1100 vous écriviez:
> 
> > It's basically a limitation of the on-disk format definition that
> > has been carried over from Irix. It is an arbitrary limit - the real
> > limit is the maximum size of an attribute (64KB) and we plan to
> > raise it to that limit as part of the upcoming on-disk format
> > changes for metadata checksums...
> > 
> 
> What's the proposed time frame or kernel version for this change?

When it is ready. Think months, not years ;)

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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