NAS-120362 / Ensure that commonly requested xattrs are in SA #243
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Now that we have SA-based xattrs on FreeBSD we should ensure that certain important samba-related xattrs are written to this area rather than in the xattr dir. This avoids having to perform more expensive permissions check, lookup, and read.
Since we can't always know what the contents of these xattrs will be beforehand, store empty xattrs and have Samba internally assign special meaning to the ones with no value (e.g. fail read with ENOATTR). This is sufficient to mask the attributes from SMB clients since vfs_streams_xattr will attempt to FGETXATTR prior to appending the xattr to STREAM_INFO response.
Three attributes to be stored in this way are: