Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:59:07 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS extended attributes Message-ID: <20060410095828.M15367@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060410074341.Y32454@fledge.watson.org> References: <44398741.9080704@greenmeadow.ca> <20060410074341.Y32454@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: > > > Started doing a little reading on the UFS and UFS2 file systems. I'm just > > wondering if all types of files have extended attribute blocks available > > including named pipes, sockets, and device files? > > > > Is it still the case that there are three unused extended attribute blocks > > available? > > Extended attribute storage is available for all objects in UFS, including > files, directories, named pipes, UNIX domain sockets, and device nodes. I'm > probably not th eright person to answer questions about the layout itself. Looks like it is: see /usr/include/ufs/ufs/dinode.h -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Theoremhood is positively decidable. It just takes time at least exponential in the length of the proof.
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