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Message-ID: <20080219195426.GA6543@skywalker>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:24:26 +0530
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: cmm@...ibm.com
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen <esandeen@...hat.com>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: set EXT4_EXTENTS_FL only for directory and
regular files
Mingming,
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:19:05AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Also don't inherit EXT4_EXTENTS_FL from parent directory.
> If we have a directory with extent flag set and later mount the file
> system with -o noextents, the files created in that directory will also
> have extent flag set but we would not have called ext4_ext_tree_init for
> them. This will cause error later when we are verifying the extent header
>
> Also we don't want to set extent flag for symlinks, char, block, fifo
> or socket
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
This should replace the below two patches in the patch queue.
ext4-donot-set-extents-flag-for-any-symlinks.patch
ext4-clear-extents-flag-on-inodes-created-in-ext4-mknod.patch
-aneesh
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