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3 Large Extended Attribute Values
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6 To enable ext4 to store extended attribute val
7 inode or in the single extended attribute bloc
8 the EA_INODE feature allows us to store the va
9 a regular file inode. This “EA inode” is l
10 attribute name index and must not appear in a
11 inode's i_atime field is used to store a check
12 and i_ctime/i_version store a 64-bit reference
13 sharing of large xattr values between multiple
14 backward compatibility with older versions of
15 i_mtime/i_generation *may* store a back-refere
16 and i_generation of the **one** owning inode (
17 inode is not referenced by multiple inodes) to
18 is the correct one being accessed.
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