On 2015-05-02 at 01:43 +1000 Dave Chinner sent off: > 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. I know ext4 even has a much lower limit. But some filesystems don't have a limit, and there the kernel 64k limit strikes in. The EA size limit of some file systems could also be increased. As there is a real use case for that I guess filesystems would like to be able to support larger EA sizes. Björn -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen ☎ +49-551-370000-0, ℻ +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen -- 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
