Pavel Raiskup <[email protected]> wrote: > > AFAIK, the Linux xattr names are not living in the filesystem but inside > > files, > > so I would assume that there are other rules for them. > > AFAIK, they resides in the filesystem on Linux. Thats the reason why > linux xattrs have this low size limits comparing to NFSv4 standard.
If they did live in the filesystem, therw would not be a low size limit. > > A related OS implementation should from my view disallow '=' inside a the > > name > > of a name=value pair, but if this conceptional problem is not fixable at > > the > > right location anymore, I would prefer to just encode '=' and '%'. > > There is probably no need to disallow '=' inside extended attributes > keywords as the '=' may be encoded also inside separate files? The linux > xattrs api would be able to encode/decode this informations... > > > I would prefer to just encode '=' and '%'. > > So do you think this solution is good enough? I also think that encode > the whole keyword is not necessary. Would you be able to fix this also in > star in future? yes Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
