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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 - 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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