LIZARDFS-GETEATTR(1)

📦 version 3.12.0, in fedora 43

💅 LIZARDFS-GETEATTR — okay bestie, let's talk extra attributes

Hiii so this is the lizardfs-geteattr manual page (yep, from section 1 of the LizardFS manuals, the part where all the fun user-facing commands live). It also covers its two chaotic siblings lizardfs-seteattr and lizardfs-deleattr, because apparently they can't be trusted to have their own page. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

lizardfs-geteattr, lizardfs-seteattr, lizardfs-deleattr — get, set or delete extra attributes

Like. That's the whole job description. Three little tools, one big mission: extra attributes. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lizardfs geteattr [-r] [-n|-h|-H] OBJECT...

lizardfs seteattr [-r] [-n|-h|-H] -f ATTRNAME [-f ATTRNAME ...] OBJECT...

lizardfs deleattr [-r] [-n|-h|-H] -f ATTRNAME [-f ATTRNAME ...] OBJECT...

Look at that symmetry. The seteattr and deleattr ones are literally twins, the only difference is the vibe (setting vs deleting, iykyk). 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So geteattr, seteattr and deleattr are the tools you use to get, set or delete some extra attributes. That's it, that's the whole thing. And the attributes themselves? They're described down below in their own lil section, don't worry, we're getting there. 💜

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -r — turns on recursive mode. It does the thing to everything, not just the one object you pointed at. Go off, honestly. 🔥
  • -n, -h, -H — these three are described over in lizardfs(1). Not me making you go read another manpage, but like... that's where the lore is. 📖

🌈 EXTRA ATTRIBUTES 🌈

Okay here's the actual menu of attributes, the main characters:

  • noowner — this flag means that a particular object belongs to the current user, like the uid and gid of the object are equal to the uid and gid values of the accessing process. Basically it's yours, cosmically. ✨ BUT — and this is the important part — only root (uid=0) sees the real uid and gid. Everyone else gets the costume. Not me gatekeeping identity, that's just how it is. 💀
  • noattrcache — this flag means standard file attributes like uid, gid, mode, length and so on won't be stored in kernel cache. No caching, no stale vibes. It's giving fresh-every-time energy. 🧚
  • noentrycache — similar to the one above but for directories: it prevents directory entries from being cached in kernel. Same energy, different layer. 🙈

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fr fr please actually read the license, it's not just decoration 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay that's the whole page, you ate that, no notes. this was LIZARDFS-GETEATTR(1), from the 07/24/2025 build of the LizardFS manual set — mwah, go set some attributes bestie 💅🌸

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