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From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Subject: extended attributes limits
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On a UFS2 filesystem, how many bytes worth of extended attributes data
can be stored?

Is there a per-file limit on this, or is the limit per-filesystem?

I know that there must be some limit, but I have not seen it documented
anywhere.