[Samba] acl_xattr vs acl_tdb

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Mar 26 09:23:48 MDT 2010


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:39:31PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:38:19AM -0400, simo wrote:
> > > > There's something I would really like to know! But somehow it seems to 
> > > > be a secret of the gods that us mere mortals are not allowed to penetrate...
> > > 
> > > Please say if there is any size restriction for xattrs in
> > > XFS. Hopefully there is none, which would mean that you can
> > > fill the whole file system with a single security descriptor
> > > if you wish.
> > 
> > If I remember correctly XFS used to have a size limit of 64KiB per
> > xattr.
> 
> Shall I call you god now? :-)

Nah. I knew that too, but Simo is on the East Coast
and so answered first :-).


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