Summary of Attributes on Various File System Types

The following table indicates how different file systems support the various file system attributes. See the key in Table 9-7.

Table 9-6 Attributes Supported by the Supported File System Types

Attribute	TNFS	UFS/TMPFS/SLNFS	PCFS/HSFS
Allowed privileges	FS	MT	MT
Forced privileges	FS	MT	MT
CMW label	FS	MT ( label only)	MT (label only; from host's template)
MLD prefix	FS	MT	MT
Label range	FS	MT	MT
File system attribute flags	FS	none	none
Object attribute flags	FS	MT	MT
Mount flags	MT	MT	MT
Access ACL	OBJ	OBJ	none
File mode	OBJ	OBJ	*
File owner	OBJ	OBJ	*
File group	OBJ	OBJ	*

Type	Where Attribute Obtained
FS	From the file system
MT	From attributes specified at mount time
*	For HSFS with Rock Ridge extensions: same as the object

Table 9-7 KEY to the File System Attributes Table

UFS	A UFS file system on a Trusted Solaris host
TNFS	A TNFS file system from a Trusted Solaris or TSIX server
TMPFS	A TMPFS file system
SLNFS	A NFSv2 file system or a NFSv3 file system from a single-label/unlabeled server
PCFS	A PCFS file system
HSFS	A HSFS file system

MLDs are supported only by the following file system types:

• ufs (always variable)

• nfs-variable

  (NFS file systems mounted from Trusted Solaris servers)

• lofs, and

• tmpfs