Author: | Brian Coca |
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New in version 1.3.
Manages filesystem user defined extended attributes, requires that they are enabled on the target filesystem and that the setfattr/getfattr utilities are present.
parameter | required | default | choices | comments |
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follow | no | True |
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if yes, dereferences symlinks and sets/gets attributes on symlink target, otherwise acts on symlink itself. |
key | no | None | The name of a specific Extended attribute key to set/retrieve | |
name | yes | None | The full path of the file/object to get the facts of | |
state | no | get |
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defines which state you want to do. read retrieves the current value for a key (default) present sets name to value , default if value is set all dumps all data keys retrieves all keys absent deletes the key |
value | no | None | The value to set the named name/key to, it automatically sets the state to 'set' |