Re: Setting up FreeBSD UFS named attributes?

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 2:41 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
> > >
> > > 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.)
> Oh, and just fyi, this is mentioned in the named_attribute(7) man
> page.

Who is the FreeBSD UFS developer? We'd be interested in O_NAMEDATTR
support for UFS, for lightweight embedded NFSv4.1 servers. Embedded as
in embedded devices.

Thanks,
Martin