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# Attribute - $EA_INFORMATION (0xD0)

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## Overview

Used to implement under NTFS the HPFS extended attributes used by the information subsystem of OS/2 and OS/2 clients of Windows NT servers. This file attribute may be non-resident because its stream is likely to grow.

As defined in $AttrDef, this attribute has a minimum and a maximum size of 8 bytes.

## Layout of the Attribute

Offset | Size | Description
--- | --- | ---
~ | ~ | Standard Attribute Header
0x00 | 2 | Size of the packed Extended Attributes
0x02 | 2 | Number of Extended Attributes which have NEED_EA set
0x04 | 4 | Size of the unpacked Extended Attributes

## Notes

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