Re: EA and accounting

Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:22:59 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.acl.devel
Organization SUSE LINUX Products GMBH
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 04 April 2005 16:13, Jochen Tuchbreiter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > You could create a filesystem with large inodes (-I option of
> > mkfs.ext3), in
> > which case small EAs are stored inside the inodes, and so
> > don't cause block
> > allocations. Otherwise, you'll have to increase quotas.
>
> Is this also true for the latest 2.4 ea-patches? (ea-0.8.73)

Yes, it's identical.

> xattr.c says:
> * Extended attributes are stored on disk blocks allocated outside of
> * any inode.

Yet they are still accounted for per inode.

-- Andreas.
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