Re: size limit of extended attributes

["Björn JACKE" <bj@sernet.de>]

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
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