On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:20:01PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote: > The maximum is currently set to 64kb almost arbitrarily. 64kb is > the maximum size of all xattrs under XFS so at least for > samba + XFS (or EXT4) servers we will not be able to write so many > EAs that we no longer can list them any more. This description looks confusing. For XFS the limits is 64kb for each individual xattr, not for all attrs. But your patch seems to be about the listxattr path anyway if I read it correctly. There the VFS exposes a limit of XATTR_LIST_MAX, which also happens to be 64kb for the buffer size that contains all the xattr _names_. Note that XFS could support almost arbitrary large amounts of xatttrs names (and on IRIX does), but on Linux we limit it to this limit of the VFS listxattr interface. -- 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
