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From: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
Subject: What's a realistic size for xattr?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:06:48 +1300
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I'm trying to figure out a reasonable approach to implementing xattr in YAFFS.

>>From my (limited) knowledge of xattr it seems that in theory you could store a 
multi-Mbyte database in xattr, but in practice a smaller size is far more 
reasonable. Clearly storing/managing a small blob is going to be a lot 
simpler.

What is the cut off of a reasonable xattr blob size? 1kbytes? 2kbytes?...

Thanx.

Charles