From b68d4dc3823d3546028181af9172bacd877ee8a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:17:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] attr.7: Btrfs also supports extended attributes Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/attr.7 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/attr.7 b/man7/attr.7 index 068a11c0b..211e5afbe 100644 --- a/man7/attr.7 +++ b/man7/attr.7 @@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ Writing replaces any previous value with the new value. Space consumed for extended attributes is counted towards the disk quotas of the file owner and file group. .PP -Currently, support for extended attributes is implemented on Linux by the -ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, JFS and Reiserfs filesystems. +Currently, the filesystems that support extended attributes include +Btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, JFS, and Reiserfs. .SS Extended attribute namespaces Attribute names are zero-terminated strings. The attribute name is always specified in the fully qualified @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ extended attribute must fit on a single filesystem block (1024, 2048 or 4096 bytes, depending on the block size specified when the filesystem was created). .PP -In the XFS and Reiserfs filesystem implementations, there is no +In the Btrfs, XFS, and Reiserfs filesystem implementations, there is no practical limit on the number or size of extended attributes associated with a file, and the algorithms used to store extended attribute information on disk are scalable.