From 6ad46a9d8cfe4533a30bdb32c99400e5d95624f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:12:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- man7/attr.7 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/attr.7 b/man7/attr.7 index 7605259eb..644f54ba2 100644 --- a/man7/attr.7 +++ b/man7/attr.7 @@ -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. .PP -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). .PP