Re: Setting up FreeBSD UFS named attributes?

From: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:41:12 UTC 
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 5:35 AM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 5:02 AM Martin Wege <martin.l.wege@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > 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.)
Oh, and just fyi, this is mentioned in the named_attribute(7) man
page.

rick

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> rick
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> > Thanks,
> > Martin
> >