Does NFS support File System Extended Attributes ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • How to use Extended File Attributes on NFS?
  • Running setfattr over NFS fails:
# setfattr -n user.comment -v "some comment" test.txt
setfattr: test.txt: Operation not supported

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • NFS (either NFSv3 or NFSv4)

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