Tim Haley wrote: > Guess the mechanics of the jive interface still don't quite work, so > forwarding this comment from Richard L Hamilton: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Extensible Attribute Interfaces [PSARC/2007/315 FastTrack > Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:35:38 -0700 (PDT) > From: Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> > To: opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org > > > Has the storage overhead of multiple extended attribute "files" associated > with every filesystem object been considered? Or the impact of multiplying > the total namespace (of file and attribute names) on the directory handling > facilities of the OS?
See section 4.1 of the document. There is no additional disk storage required to present system attributes in the extended attribute namespace. -Chris
