From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Björn JACKE" <bj@sernet.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: size limit of extended attributes
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 01:43:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150501154351.GC15810@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Ynoyu-001UTN-EI@intern.SerNet.DE>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-01 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-30 11:33 size limit of extended attributes Björn JACKE
2015-04-30 12:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2015-04-30 13:57 ` Björn JACKE
2015-04-30 14:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-04-30 14:46 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-30 16:06 ` Björn JACKE
2015-04-30 16:56 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-05-05 13:34 ` Björn JACKE
2015-05-01 15:43 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2015-05-05 13:38 ` Björn JACKE
2015-05-05 15:43 ` Jan Kara
2015-05-06 1:31 ` Dave Chinner
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