On 04/30/2015 04:57 PM, Björn JACKE wrote: > > Can we get rid of the 64k size limit for EAs? The API on AIX is the same as on > Linux. But there is a huge size limit - which would help us already a lot. > If memory serves me correctly the xattr is always written in one shot from offset0..xattr_size. At least it is so on the VFS API side. That said I think there are also two mem-copies on the way to the FS from the user buffer. How will you reliably write something bigger than CONST-X in one call? On all arches. Same goes for read. > Björn > The hacks need not be so ugly and they can be well documented and poblished as a public STD. ./foo-with-streams (With xatters info) ./.foo-with-streams.__STREAMES__/ (backpointer xattrs-info) ./.foo-with-streams.__STREAMES__/SA ./.foo-with-streams.__STREAMES__/SB ... And some special mod bits on the .foo-with-streams.__STREAMES__ directory The smb read-dir parser removes those hidden directories Cheers Boaz -- 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
