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{{Short description|Set of file system features}}
'''Extended file attributes''' are [[file system]] features that enable users to associate [[computer file]]s with [[metadata]] not interpreted by the filesystem, whereas regular attributes have a purpose strictly defined by the filesystem (such as [[file system permissions|permissions]] or records of creation and modification times). Unlike [[fork (file system)|forks]], which can usually be as large as the maximum file size, extended attributes are usually limited in size to a value significantly smaller than the maximum file size. Typical uses include storing the author of a document, the [[character encoding]] of a plain-text document, or a [[cyclic redundancy check|checksum]], [[cryptographic hash]] or [[digital certificate]], and [[discretionary access control]] information.
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===Linux===
In [[Linux]], the [[ext2]], [[ext3]], [[ext4]], [[JFS (file system)|JFS]], [[Squashfs]], [[UBIFS]], [[YAFFS|Yaffs2]], [[ReiserFS]], [[Reiser4]], [[XFS]], [[Btrfs]], [[OrangeFS]], [[Lustre (file system)|Lustre]], [[OCFS2|OCFS2 1.6]], [[ZFS]], and [[F2FS]]<ref>{{cite web
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As of 2016, they are not yet in widespread use by user-space Linux programs, but are used by [[Beagle (software)|Beagle]], [[OpenStack#Object storage (Swift)|OpenStack Swift]], [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]], [[KDE]]'s semantic metadata framework (Baloo), [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]], [[Wget]], [[cURL]], and [[
The Linux kernel allows extended
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In [[OS/2]] version 1.2 and later, the [[High Performance File System]] was designed with extended attributes in mind, but support for them was also retro-fitted on the [[File Allocation Table|FAT]] filesystem of DOS.
For compatibility with other operating systems using a FAT partition, OS/2 attributes are stored inside a single file "{{code|EA DATA. SF}}" located in the root directory. This file is normally inaccessible when an operating system supporting extended attributes manages the disk, but can be freely manipulated under, for example, DOS. Files and directories having extended attributes use one or more [[cluster (file system)|clusters]] inside this file. The logical cluster number of the first used cluster is stored inside the owning file's or directory's [[FAT extended file attributes|directory entry]].<ref name="os2-fat-extended-attributes">{{cite web
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===Windows NT===
On [[Windows NT]],
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Additionally, [[NTFS]] can store arbitrary-length extended attributes in the form of [[NTFS#Alternate data stream (ADS)|alternate data streams]] (ADS), a type of [[Fork (file system)|resource fork]]. Plugins for the file manager [[Total Commander]], like ''NTFS Descriptions'' and ''QuickSearch eXtended'' support filtering the file list by or searching for metadata contained in ADS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://totalcmd.net/plugring/NTFS_diz.html|title=NTFS Descriptions 1.2.1|website=TotalCmd.net|access-date=16 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=
==See also==
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