On 2023-05-12, J Doe <gene...@nativemethods.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was configuring Samba on my OpenBSD 7.2 server and wanted to support 
> iOS/iPad OS and macOS clients.
>
> The documentation for Samba states that the following vfs options are 
> required to support these clients:
>
>      /etc/samba/smb.conf
>          . . .
>          vfs = catia fruit streams_xattr
>
> ... however, my server is using UFS2 (the default), which I am aware 
> does not support extended attributes.

OpenBSD doesn't support xattr at all.

> Would it be possible to get around that by mounting an ext2 disk image 
> file on OpenBSD via: vnconfig and: mount and pointing: smb.conf to it ?

No.

You may be able to do something with
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_the_xattr_tdb_VFS_Module


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