linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH, RFC V3] ext3: add ioctl to force 32-bit hashes from indexed dirs

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Message-ID: <20130401200052.GA24097@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:00:52 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Anand Avati <avati@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC V3] ext3: add ioctl to force 32-bit hashes from
 indexed dirs

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:49:00PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> Urgh, I guess if we are adding an interface which will live "forever,"
> we may as well make it full featured & flexible, as long as the complexity
> isn't out of hand, and I don't think it will be in this case.  So I'm at
> least half inclined to go ahead & allow toggling it on and off under the
> right circumstances, even though it goes against what I think is my better
> judgement.  ;)

If you want to have a fully flexible interface, then we probably
should have a way to both get and set the flag.  And from there the
next step down the slippery slope would be to make this be a bit more
like a fcntl-style F_GETFL/F_SETFL style interface, so we can in the
future set and get other ext4-specific struct_file-specific flags.  :-)

I'll let you decide how far you want to go with this; I won't mind if
you keep it with the original KISS interface, but I also won't mind if
you want to create a somewhat more expansive interface.

Cheers,

						- Ted
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