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## Extended Attributes
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## Extended Attributes
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### Preserving Extended Attributes in DwarFS Images
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Extended attributes are not currently supported. Any extended attributes
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Extended attributes are not currently supported. Any extended attributes
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stored in the source file system will not currently be preserved when
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stored in the source file system will not currently be preserved when
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building a DwarFS image using `mkdwarfs`.
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building a DwarFS image using `mkdwarfs`.
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### Extended Attributes exposed by the FUSE Driver
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That being said, the root inode of a mounted DwarFS image currently exposes
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That being said, the root inode of a mounted DwarFS image currently exposes
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one or two extended attributes on Linux:
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one or two extended attributes on Linux:
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FUSE driver. The `dwarfs.driver.perfmon` attribute contains the current
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FUSE driver. The `dwarfs.driver.perfmon` attribute contains the current
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results of the [performance monitor](#performance-monitoring).
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results of the [performance monitor](#performance-monitoring).
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Furthermore, each regular file exposes an attribute `dwarfs.inodeinfo`
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with information about the undelying inode:
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```
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$ attr -l "05 Disappear.caf"
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Attribute "dwarfs.inodeinfo" has a 448 byte value for 05 Disappear.caf
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```
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The attribute contains a JSON object with information about the
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underlying inode:
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```
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$ attr -qg dwarfs.inodeinfo "05 Disappear.caf"
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{
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"chunks": [
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{
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"block": 2,
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"category": "pcmaudio/metadata",
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"offset": 270976,
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"size": 4096
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},
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{
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"block": 414,
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"category": "pcmaudio/waveform",
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"offset": 37594368,
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"size": 29514492
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},
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{
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"block": 419,
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"category": "pcmaudio/waveform",
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"offset": 0,
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"size": 29385468
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}
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],
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"gid": 100,
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"mode": 33188,
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"modestring": "----rw-r--r--",
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"uid": 1000
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}
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```
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This is useful, for example, to check how a particular file is spread
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across multiple blocks or which categories have been assigned to the
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file.
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## Comparison
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## Comparison
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The SquashFS, `xz`, `lrzip`, `zpaq` and `wimlib` tests were all done on
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The SquashFS, `xz`, `lrzip`, `zpaq` and `wimlib` tests were all done on
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