On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn > <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Personally, I'd love to see unlimited length xattr's like NTFS and HFS+ do, >> as that would greatly improve interoperability (both Windows and OS X use >> xattrs, although they call them 'alternative data streams' and 'forks' >> respectively), and provide a higher likelihood that xattrs would start >> getting used more. > > This is two years old, but it looks like NFS will not support xattr. > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/53259 > > It looks like SMB does support xattr (and sometimes requires it) but I > have no idea to what degree, including the host/client preservation on > different filesystems. [1] It would still be helpful for cp and rsync > to be able to preserve xattr, however Apple has moved to a new on-disk > format that makes the future of reading OS X volumes on Linux an open > question. [2]
Those are the old OS 2 XATTRs, better known as EAs, and NTFS says that you can support EAs or you can have Reparse Points, but not both (basically, they re-used the EA Length field as the reparse tag). Also, Windows (of any flavor) does not make it easy to access EAs. -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
