From 4de3c7b42fcee48a2328794d0b9f63aeadd75dd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Volker Lendecke Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:13:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Mention MR 4212 Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke Reviewed-by: Ralph Boehme Autobuild-User(master): Volker Lendecke Autobuild-Date(master): Sun Oct 26 09:10:57 UTC 2025 on atb-devel-224 --- WHATSNEW.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 5447e383b27..66be80f64f2 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -34,6 +34,22 @@ log changes to the following attributes: For the JSON logs, changes to these will be logged with the "action" field set to "Auth info change". + +vfs_streams_xattr can hold larger streams +----------------------------------------- + +On Linux the size of a single extended attribute is limited to 65536 +bytes of size. For some file systems, this is also the overall limit +of space for xattrs, but for example xfs can hold more than that 64k +of extended xattrs, although the individual xattr is still limited to +64k. Setting + +streams_xattr:max xattrs per stream = 1 + +to a higher value than 1 will allow Samba to shard the stream to more +than one xattr. It has an artificial limit of 16 for a maximum stream +length of 1MB. + REMOVED FEATURES ================ -- 2.47.3