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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To: Robert Cousins <rec@RCousins.com>
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Subject: Re: ZFS extended attributes
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:40:24AM -0700, Robert Cousins wrote:
> I was trying to run a program over ZFS which runs under UFS. After some  
> tracking, I found that the program was using extended file attributes  
> under UFS2 and that these are not supported under ZFS.
>
> Is there a plan to support extended attributes under ZFS?

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS

See "extattr" in the table near the bottom.  Talk to pjd@ if you're
interested in helping.  :-)

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