On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 11:06 +1300, Charles Manning wrote: > I'm trying to figure out a reasonable approach to implementing xattr in YAFFS. > > >From my (limited) knowledge of xattr it seems that in theory you could store a > multi-Mbyte database in xattr, but in practice a smaller size is far more > reasonable. Clearly storing/managing a small blob is going to be a lot > simpler. > > What is the cut off of a reasonable xattr blob size? 1kbytes? 2kbytes?... > > Thanx. > > Charles > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html I just realized that I never really answered your question. I've yet to see a reasonable SELinux context over 128 characters and Smack labels should be shorter than that. I don't know what beagle places in xattrs but I think that would be a good place to take a look for more practical xattr sizes. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
