Adding Brian Behlendorf to the CC list, as we were just talking about this
yesterday at LUG. :)
I suspect this is a bug; the posix docs indicate ERANGE is apprpriate
here:
[ERANGE] value (as indicated by size) is too small to hold the
extended attribute data.
from http://www.unix.com/man-page/all/2/GETXATTR/.
sage
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Henry C Chang wrote:
> > I looked into this problem earlier. The problem is that zfs does not
> > return ERANGE when the size of value buffer passed to getxattr is too
> > small. zfs returns with truncated xattr value.
>
> Is this a bug in ZFS, or simply different behavior?
>
> I've used ZFSonLinux quite a bit and they do seem to be very eager to fix bugs
> related to improper behavior, so if it's actually a bug I/someone can talk to
> them and try to get them to look at it soonish.
>
> --Jeff
>
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