linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs 9/9] tune2fs: Prevent enabling encryption flag on encoding-aware fs

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:03:01 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs 9/9] tune2fs: Prevent enabling encryption flag
 on encoding-aware fs

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> The kernel will refuse to mount filesystems with the encryption and
> encoding features enabled at the same time.  The encoding feature can
> only be set at mount time, so we can just prevent encryption from being
> set at a later time by tune2fs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>

This check also needs to be in mke2fs, right?  I don't think I saw it
in your mke2fs patch.

					- Ted