Re: Question about maximum amount of attributes on EXT3

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:10, Anthony Quinn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to configure the maximum size
> allowed for extended attributes per file.  We have used XFS in the
> past and the limit is 64K per file - we ran into a smaller limit with
> EXT3.  Is it controlled by EXT3_XATTR_INDEX_MAX?

No. The limit is the filesystem block size. With very recent kernels
that have in-inode attributes, the extra space available in inodes
(128-896 bytes depending on the inode size) adds to that.

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