This would be VERY trivial to add - the intent was to allow a query of the CIFS/SMB3 specific inode metatada via a user xattr (the attribute was defined as user.DosAttrib). Probably less than 10 lines of code to finishup below the following in fs/cifs/xattr.c if (strncmp(ea_name, CIFS_XATTR_DOS_ATTRIB, 14) == 0) { cifs_dbg(FYI, "attempt to query cifs inode metadata\n"); /* revalidate/getattr then populate from inode */ On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:05:49 +0100, Peter Flood wrote: > >> I want to read the 'offline' extended attribute on files on a windows >> share mounted on a linux host, is it possible to get this info? > > The Linux CIFS client doesn't currently offer such support. However, > the offline attribute can be checked using smbclient via the allinfo > command. Offline files will carry an 'O' in the attributes field. > > Cheers, David > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html