Re: Setting up FreeBSD UFS named attributes?

Reply: Rick Macklem : "Re: Setting up FreeBSD UFS named attributes?"
In reply to: Martin Wege : "Setting up FreeBSD UFS named attributes?"
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From: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:35:02 UTC

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 5:02 AM Martin Wege <martin.l.wege@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Solaris allows openat(".", O_XATTR) on UFS and bash -c 'cd -@ . && ls -l'.
>
> How can I do the same on FreeBSD 15.0 UFS?
No. The named attr support in FreeBSD 15 only works for ZFS.
(The UFS code in FreeBSD is not based on OpenSolaris code
and does not have the plumbing for named attributes in it.)

rick

>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>