[Samba] Inquiry: Samba and xattr with vfs_fruit on FreeBSD / ZFS (macOS Finder metadata problem)

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Wed Oct 15 15:19:08 UTC 2025


On 10/15/25 14:26, Lorenzo Perone via samba wrote:

> This is a viable compromise, at least one worth testing out (thanx Andrea).

Glad it helped.



> I was about to try patching it (finding where the enumeration gets 
> lost), but I see that the FreeBSD port already has around 30 patches in 
> place.

In fact I thing this is one of the biggest problem we have with our 
ports; I once tried to look into this (I wrote or edited some of those 
patches), but understanding what each one does, why it's there and how 
it interacts with the others is very hard.

  bye
	av.



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