From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: size limit of extended attributes Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 01:43:51 +1000 Message-ID: <20150501154351.GC15810@dastard> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Trond Myklebust , Linux FS-devel Mailing List To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= JACKE Return-path: Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.143]:59172 "EHLO ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754196AbbEAPnz (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2015 11:43:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:57:37PM +0200, Bj=F6rn JACKE wrote: > Can we get rid of the 64k size limit for EAs? The API on AIX is the s= ame 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. --=20 Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html