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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

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