Abstract

This filesystem provides xattr support using sidecar files.

Latest version

The latest version and more information can be found on http://github.com/fbarriga/fuse_xattrs

How to mount a filesystem

Once fuse_xattrs is installed (see next section) running it is very simple:

fuse_xattrs source_directory mountpoint

To unmount the filesystem:

fusermount -u mountpoint

Distribution packages

Archlinux (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fuse_xattrs/):

yaourt -S fuse_xattrs

Building

First you need to download FUSE 2.9 or later from http://github.com/libfuse/libfuse.

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Code Coverage

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DENABLE_CODECOVERAGE=1 -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
make
make fuse_xattrs_coverage

Installing

make install

Links

• http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/setxattr.2.html
• http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/listxattr.2.html
• http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getxattr.2.html
• http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/errno.3.html
• https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes/