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Subject: Re: Extended file atributes
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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