On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2014-12-19 21:07, Richard Sharpe wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I need a Linux file system that supports XATTRs up to 64K. >> >> Can BTRFS support that or is XFS the only Linux file system with such >> support? >> > At the moment, BTRFS is limited to xattrs that fit inline in the metadata > nodes (so ~3900 bytes for a 4k leafsize). > > XFS, however, isn't the only Linux filesystem that supports xattrs that > size. Assuming that you are using a recent kernel, you can also use such > xattrs on at least: > * XFS > * JFS > * ext4 > * reiserfs (I think, not 100% certain about this one though) > * OCFS2 (even though it is technically a cluster fs, it can be run single > node without the clustering) > * ZFS (IIRC, ZFS supports unlimited xattr size) > * NTFS (no limit on xattr size, though you should use NTFS-3G instead of > the in-kernel driver) > * SquashFS (read-only) > * HFS+ (Also no limit on xattr size) > Of these, I'd personally suggest using XFS unless you need to be able to > shrink the filesystem, in which case I'd suggest ext4. Thanks for the info. I hadn't realized that ext4 had lifted the restriction. -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
