attr.7: The ext[234] block limitation applies to sum of all EAs

It is not a per-EA limit.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-04-22 10:12:08 +02:00
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@ -139,8 +139,9 @@ require the filesystem to be mounted with the
.B user_xattr
mount option in order for extended user attributes to be used.
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In the current ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystem implementations, each
extended attribute must fit on a single filesystem block (1024, 2048
In the current ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystem implementations,
the total bytes used by the names and values of all of a files
extended attributes must fit in a single filesystem block (1024, 2048
or 4096 bytes, depending on the block size specified when the
filesystem was created).
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