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‘Attributes can be extended.’

[⟨det (plur attribute.n)⟩ extended.a]

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Beagle does use extended attributes, and freedesktop. org publishes for their use.
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HPFS provided a number of improvements over the older FAT filesystem, including long filenames and a form of alternate data streams called Extended Attributes.
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Although the named forks in HFS + support arbitrarily large amounts of data through extents, the OS support for extended attributes only supports inline attributes, limiting their size to that which can fit within a single B * – tree node.
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The NTFS filesystem also allows to store OS / 2 extended attributes, as one of file “forks”, but this feature is merely present to support the OS / 2 subsystem (not present in XP), so the Win32 subsystem treats this information as an opaque block of data and does not use it.
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In 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 FAT filesystem of DOS.
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Version 4 of the Network File System supports extended attributes in much the same way as Solaris.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The most recent versions of rsync delivered with Mac OS X also support most of the peculiarities of the Mac file system as well, including resource forks and extended attributes.
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In Wikipedia:

In FreeBSD 5.0 and later, the UFS1 and UFS2 filesystems support extended attributes.
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In Wikipedia:

On Unix and Unix-like systems, the ext2, ext3, ReiserFS version 3, XFS, JFS, FFS, and HFS + filesystems allow the storage of extended attributes with files.
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HPFS also can keep 64 KiB of metadata (“extended attributes”) per file.
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The Mac OS X APIs support listing, getting, setting, and removing extended attributes from files or directories.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There is a lot of other potential users of extended attributes – Digikam, Amarok – basically any SW dealing with large file collections.
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In Wikipedia:

In Windows NT, support for long filenames on FAT started from version 3.5. 2 added long filename support to FAT using extended attributes (EA) before the introduction of VFAT; thus, VFAT long filenames are invisible to OS / 2, and EA long filenames are invisible to Windows.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Clicking on details? would show “ServerName failed to start worker process: The extended attributes are inconsistent.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Does CS2008 offer an alternative to extended attributes?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

These’ ’ extended attributes’ ’ are read – only for the moment.
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In Wikipedia:

Windows NT supports extended attributes on FAT and HPFS filesystems in the same way as 2 does.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Extended attributes can now be updated for most dialects.
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In Wikipedia:

Any regular file may have a list of extended attributes.
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Queried on 2013-06-18.