linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: set EXT4_EXTENTS_FL only for directory and regular files

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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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