Differential D51444

named_attribute.7: Add a section for ZFS "sa" attributes
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Authored by rmacklem on Jul 20 2025, 8:14 PM.

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rGc754cdedb380: named_attribute.7: Add a section for ZFS "sa" attributes

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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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rmacklem created this revision.Jul 20 2025, 8:14 PM

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kib added inline comments.Jul 21 2025, 6:33 AM

share/man/man7/named_attribute.7
139	value or length?

rmacklem added inline comments.Jul 21 2025, 2:01 PM

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)