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From: Jeff Mitchell <jeffrey.mitchell@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: test osd on zfs
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:37:10 -0400
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To: Henry C Chang <henry.cy.chang@gmail.com>
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Henry C Chang wrote:
> I looked into this problem earlier. The problem is that zfs does not
> return ERANGE when the size of value buffer passed to getxattr is too
> small. zfs returns with truncated xattr value.

Is this a bug in ZFS, or simply different behavior?

I've used ZFSonLinux quite a bit and they do seem to be very eager to 
fix bugs related to improper behavior, so if it's actually a bug 
I/someone can talk to them and try to get them to look at it soonish.

--Jeff