On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Björn JACKE <bj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > currently there is the hard limit for the size of extended attributes, of > XATTR_SIZE_MAX set to 65536. > > Is there a reason for that limit or can this limit be removed, so that only the > filesystem stays as a limiting factor here? > > In Samba we need to be able to store data in extrended attributes which can be > much biger thatn 64k. AIX for example supports EAs of 16TB size in JFS2, > Solaris is able to handle streams like files and also doesn't have special size > limitations for EAs. Can we get rid of the tiny size limit in Linux also? It's going to be a real treat watching Samba write a 16TB memory buffer using the xattr API. Why can't you work around this by using the xattr as a symlink-like object that points to the real stored data? That way you also have available the file semantics that you need in order to write these large objects. Trying to squeeze an API for subfiles into the xattr API is a dead end. Cheers Trond -- 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
