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authorBarry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>2007-10-22 15:51:20 +0000
committerBarry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>2007-10-22 15:51:20 +0000
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Fix attr man pages
Merge of master-melb:xfs-cmds:29936a by kenmcd. Fix attr man pages
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@@ -16,12 +16,6 @@ attr \- extended attributes on XFS filesystem objects
.SH OVERVIEW
Extended attributes implement the ability for a user to attach
name:value pairs to objects within the XFS filesystem.
-.P
-They could be used to store meta-information about the file.
-For example "character-set=kanji" could tell a document browser to
-use the Kanji character set when displaying that document
-and "thumbnail=..." could provide a reduced resolution overview of a
-high resolution graphic image.
.PP
This document describes the
.I attr
@@ -32,7 +26,13 @@ filesystem independent extended attribute manipulation, consult the
and
.IR setfattr (1)
documentation.
-.P
+.PP
+Extended attributes can be used to store meta-information about the file.
+For example "character-set=kanji" could tell a document browser to
+use the Kanji character set when displaying that document
+and "thumbnail=..." could provide a reduced resolution overview of a
+high resolution graphic image.
+.PP
In the XFS filesystem, the
.I names
can be up to 256 bytes in length, terminated by the first 0 byte.
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ names for the attribute.
The
.I values
can be up to 64KB of arbitrary binary data.
-.P
+.PP
Attributes can be attached to all types of XFS inodes:
regular files, directories, symbolic links, device nodes, etc.
-.P
+.PP
XFS uses 2 disjoint attribute name spaces associated with every
filesystem object.
They are the