question on extended attributes

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:19:36PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
> I don't believe that resource forks are available under FreeBSD at this
> time. Solaris supports the "subfile" concept, which is basically the same
> as far as I know, so it seems there might be something inside ZFS, although
> I suspect it isn't available for FreeBSD?
> 
> Does anyone familiar with ZFS know more?

ZFS in FreeBSD supports extended attributes based on Solaris resource
forks code. Take a look at the zfs_create_attrname() function in
sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c to see how we
convert the names, etc.

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