tentatively merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next but would like thoughts on whether we should allow > 64K EAs to some Samba or Windows servers? On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 4:40 PM Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Steve, All > > Some patches to consider for the next merge window. > The first two patches changes querying the EAs to use compounding > and adds a new query info compound helpers we can use for all other > open/query info/close places as well. > > The third patch adds an Open/Query/Close compound before setitng an > EA in order to make sure that we do not add so many EAs that we go beyond > the 64k limit that we have in the client for queries. > That used to be very annoying since you could keep adding more and more > large EAs until the point where you went above 64k, at which point you > could no longer list or access the EAs from the client any more :-( > > Unfortunately it adds an extra roundtrip to setting an EA but that should > be fine. Setting EAs should be relatively uncommon operation. > -- Thanks, Steve
