linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/11] quota: Stop setting IMMUTABLE and NOATIME flags directly

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:34:03 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] quota: Stop setting IMMUTABLE and NOATIME flags
 directly

On Wed 12-04-17 09:26:00, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this series removes setting of IMMUTABLE and NOATIME flags from generic quota
> code and moves it to filesystem's quota_on / quota_off handlers. Since this
> was the only place where generic code was modifying inode flags that need to
> be persistent on disk, we can remove functions syncing inode->i_flags to
> on-disk flags after this. This was motivated by recent statx() work that
> wants consistent view of inode flags without holding i_mutex.
> 
> Patches passed basic testing for ext2, ext4, reiserfs, compile-tested for jfs
> only. Please review, patches are mostly trivial but I could have missed
> something. If people are fine with the changes, I plan to merge them through
> my tree.

Since there were no objections to the patches I have pulled them into my
tree and will push them to Linus during the merge window.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR