Extended attributes in Hammer2

[Justin Sherrill]

What were you going to do with the extended attributes?  i.e. what
specific activity did you need it for?

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 6:28 PM <gugol at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 at 6:04 PM
> > From: "Matthew Dillon" <dillon at backplane.com>
> > To: gugol at gmx.com
> > Cc: hammer at dragonflybsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Extended attributes in Hammer2
> >
> > Not currently. It is something that can be added but there's no timeline
> > for it.
> >
> > -Matt
>
> Thanks for your reply, Matt.
> I am a little disappointed because I expected Hammer2 to be roughly on a par with Btrfs and ZFS feature-wise. At least this is the way Hammer2 has been described in several online articles. Hence my disappointment that such an otherwise terrific filesystem lacks support for extended attributes, which are a common feature of modern filesystems. Of course, Hammer2 still shines in other ways, and after reading up on it I must say I was really impressed by this filesystem. In fact I was seriously considering adopting it as my workhorse filesystem, and I was about to give it a try. But alas the lack of support for extended attributes is quite a deal breaker for me :(
> I really hope you will implement this feature in a future version, the sooner the better. Please also consider that many other users would really appreciate it.
> Thanks
> Jack