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Linux has what is called "extended attributes", but I am wondering what are the "non-extended attributes", I am assuming they are things like the file permissions, file owner, file dates, etc.

Am I correct? and is there a documentation that lists all of the "non-extended attributes"?

The basic attributes are those that you can retrieve with the stat(2) system call.

 struct stat 
 dev_t st_dev; /* ID of device containing file */
 ino_t st_ino; /* Inode number */
 mode_t st_mode; /* File type and mode */
 nlink_t st_nlink; /* Number of hard links */
 uid_t st_uid; /* User ID of owner */
 gid_t st_gid; /* Group ID of owner */
 dev_t st_rdev; /* Device ID (if special file) */
 off_t st_size; /* Total size, in bytes */
 blksize_t st_blksize; /* Block size for filesystem I/O */
 blkcnt_t st_blocks; /* Number of 512B blocks allocated */

 /* Since Linux 2.6, the kernel supports nanosecond
 precision for the following timestamp fields.
 For the details before Linux 2.6, see NOTES. */

 struct timespec st_atim; /* Time of last access */
 struct timespec st_mtim; /* Time of last modification */
 struct timespec st_ctim; /* Time of last status change */

 #define st_atime st_atim.tv_sec /* Backward compatibility */
 #define st_mtime st_mtim.tv_sec
 #define st_ctime st_ctim.tv_sec
 ;