On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:40:49PM -0400, simo wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 12:28 -0400, simo wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 10:53 -0400, simo wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 13:06 +0000, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > > > > If I remember correctly XFS used to have a size limit of 64KiB per > > > > > xattr. > > > > > > > > > > > > > What about ext3 & ext4? > > > > > > Always IIRC, they should be limited by the inode size, which is 4KiB, > > > but this information is old, and should be verified for ext4. > > > > Ok I just checked. > > On ext4 the total size of *all* xattrs can't be larger than 4k and some. > > > > There is only 1 block you can allocate beyond the file inode. > > > > So careful on the amount of data you store in ext4 attrs. If you think > > you'll have fatty Windows ACLs to store I guess XFS is a better choice > > right now. > > Ah just to add insult to injury, remember that the xattr space is shared > with selinux labels *and* posix ACLs contents. > > So it is a tight spot indeed.
And don't forget the DOS attributes as well :-). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba