linux-kernel - Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: make file immutable even if releasing zero compression block

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Message-ID: <3dd96915-51f1-e8ab-ad2d-29bfda68a635@huawei.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Aug 2020 08:56:34 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Daeho Jeong <daeho43@...il.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>, <kernel-team@...roid.com>
CC:     Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: make file immutable even if releasing
 zero compression block

On 2020/7/30 13:09, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>
> 
> When we use F2FS_IOC_RELEASE_COMPRESS_BLOCKS ioctl, if we can't find
> any compressed blocks in the file even with large file size, the
> ioctl just ends up without changing the file's status as immutable.
> It makes the user, who expects that the file is immutable when it
> returns successfully, confused.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>

Thanks,