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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net> wrote: > The limit is filesystem dependent -- I think ext2/3s is something like > 4k total for attribute names and values per inode. > > That's more than enough space for the largest executable on my system > (emacs at 36788160 bytes) which would have a 1123 byte predictive bitmap > (plus space for the name e.g. "system.predictive_bitmap"). The bitmap > also could be compressed. 4k attribute means support for about 32768 pages. That's a total of 134MB. I think this qualifies as sufficient. Also, I assume the attribute limit is just a "because nobody needed more so far" limit and could in theory be extended. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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