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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:13:57 +1000
From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about extended attributes...
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Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:55:29PM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
>> Hi Linda,
>>
>> Linda A. Walsh wrote:
>>> my man page says extended xfs attributes can have 256-byte names
>>> with up to 64K of data.
>>>
>>> Is there a limit on the number of extended attributes max data size or
>>> name size?
>>>
>>> I.e. could I have 1000 attributes with 64K of data each?
>>>
>> Yep.
>>
>>> Is there a strong reason why the file and data sizes were limited to
>>> 256/64K?
> 
> ....
> 
>> I'm not sure why 64K was chosen for a value size limit.
> 
> Because changes to EAs are journalled. Hence there must be a bound
> size limit because log space is limited.
> 
Yeah, good point.
Which I guess also reflects how we consider extended attributes
to be more for metadata.

--Tim