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Authored by rmacklem on Jul 20 2025, 8:14 PM.
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Summary

On ZFS, extended attributes with small values
(as in number of bytes) that are created when
xattr is set to "sa" will only be visible via extattr(2)
and not as named attributes.

This man page patch documents the above.

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share/man/man7/named_attribute.7
139

value or length?

share/man/man7/named_attribute.7
139

Hmm. Extended attributes are considered
to be name/value pairs.

How about "value with a small length in bytes"?
(and then the bracketed comment goes away)

share/man/man7/named_attribute.7
139

Sounds (much) better to me.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 21 2025, 2:43 PM