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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:04:08 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Attribute order in storing and retreiving extended attributes
Message-ID:  <14171.1452445448@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <56928D06.4050500@digiware.nl>
References:  <56928D06.4050500@digiware.nl>

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In message <56928D06.4050500@digiware.nl>, Willem Jan Withagen writes:

>This is on a ZFS filesystem.
>Is there any particular reason why these is not deterministic?

You should not expect them to be in any particular order, no such
guarantee is given by the API.

Filesystem operations such as backups and restore can (also) rearrange
order of extended attribute.

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