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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:26:13 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rgen_Blomberg?= <jnbg@blomberg.tk>
To:        stan <stanb@panix.com>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extended file atributes
Message-ID:  <44DF60B5.6030701@blomberg.tk>
In-Reply-To: <20060813143104.GC12959@teddy.fas.com>
References:  <20060813143104.GC12959@teddy.fas.com>

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stan wrote:
> I was just reading about something called "extended file atributes",
> in Linux. This seems to be a way to store arbitray tag -> value pairs 
> in the filesystem, which are assocaited with a given file.
> 
> Can this be done in FreeBSd?


Yes, have a look at setextattr(8) and extattr(9).

/JB



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