From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 23 07:13:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CFC8F2AC; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22b.google.com (mail-ie0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CD7E2950; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f171.google.com with SMTP id ar20so3723042iec.16 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:13:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=lGE/e4u6r+17h/nBlfDBcfeLo8hbMup9bNGaNmmBUro=; b=PRNFBz+DureTz68lxZLcOcZl9PIIEa+akVmTBlsVS4oc4c2AzNdQOiYdhNp2BOsVt0 qHWpajdaxmKRVn3zvBlSqxD6DKWEXfMzWSjt9BiRQXwlHcwRpkKIf5g61coJ01xiHxKu 2MIjU5X+eJB/s0x9AJd84cdNb5SVWzt4+dcPOA5rEQpgf3wVZ6Zlo1B3GRuuwHNpCB+q CATEFBpWCKzOQG4o123lNxEDKpHqEQkv5wxohlZHS/V3iHdHoGlSex/7JvFXkrAr/Z5E tyT/2B6wXCMW+n2lRXrE3L2xb2C+LPqDVE4dKIkoHjLD/sDwb+kwDdNkKRsbspbprtLn L4BQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.50.169 with SMTP id d9mr5517335igo.28.1385190794938; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.225.70 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:13:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <528FB6BA.7040606@FreeBSD.org> References: <528FB6BA.7040606@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:13:14 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: O_XATTR support in FreeBSD? From: Cedric Blancher To: Pedro Giffuni Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Freebsd hackers list , Richard Yao X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:13:15 -0000 On 22 November 2013 20:55, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Well ... > > According to: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS > > We do support Extended Attributes on ZFS but they differ from the ones in > Solaris (and Linux). Well, we need the one specified in the NFSv4 standard. The Linux extended attributes are pretty much useless because they are size restricted (typical attribute size here is in the GB range, and for example NIH and CERN have even much bigger sizes), can't be accessed like normal files and are incompatible to Window's Alternate Streams. Ced -- Cedric Blancher Institute Pasteur