Using xattrs or Extended Attributes on Linux

Using xattrs or Extended Attributes on Linux Extended attributes, xattrs for short, are an extensible mechanism to store metadata along files. In other words, they describe some additional properties of the file. Normally this information is limited, like ownership and dates. With xattrs more information can be stored about the file. Support for xattrs Not all file systems have support for xattrs, but nowadays the most common ones support it (EXT4, Btrfs, ReiserFS, JFS and ZFS). To determine if your […]

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