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Message-ID: <20070423183300.GA6029@duck.suse.cz> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:33:00 +0200 From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: shaggy@...tin.ibm.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Copy i_flags to ext3 inode flags on write (version 2) On Fri 20-04-07 00:53:37, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:38:55 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote: > > > attached is a second version of a patch that stores inode flags such as > > S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. from i_flags to EXT3_I(inode)->i_flags when > > inode is written to disk. The same thing is done on GETFLAGS ioctl. > > Quota code changes these flags on quota files (to make it harder for > > sysadmin to screw himself) and these changes were not correctly > > propagated into the filesystem (especially, lsattr did not show them and > > users were wondering...). Andrew, could you please put the patch into your > > queue? Thanks. > > umm, OK. Thanks. > What about ext2 and all the zillions of others? Oh, yes... I'll send you patch for ext2, GFS2 and OCFS2. The only filesystem, which is capable to store such flags and is not converted is JFS - I was not able to find a suitable place for copying flags from VFS inode to ondisk copy (giving CC to Shaggy)... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> SuSE CR Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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