Re: size limit of extended attributes

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:57:37PM +0200, 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.

No - the maximum xattr size of 64k is encoded into the on-disk
format of many filesystems and that's not a simple thing to change.

Cheers,

Dave.
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