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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Write-once file system
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:46:15 +0400
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To: Fong Vang <FVang@Zantaz.com>
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Hello!

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:43:06AM -0700, Fong Vang wrote:
> We rely heavily on reiserfs for some of our critical file systems.  I'm just
> wondering what work would be involved and how difficult it would be to add
> an option (perhaps at mount time) to reiserfs that will allow a file to be
> written only once, i.e. once a file is created it should not be allowed to
> be modified or deleted (including the inode).  We may consider paying for
> this modification.

Is the extended attributes support (man chattr) does what you want by any chance?

Bye,
    Oleg