From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265261AbUFWLL2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:11:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265370AbUFWLL2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:11:28 -0400 Received: from [217.73.129.129] ([217.73.129.129]:55957 "EHLO car.linuxhacker.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265261AbUFWLLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:11:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:11:15 +0300 Message-Id: <200406231111.i5NBBFwF201534@car.linuxhacker.ru> From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: Strange NOTAIL inheritance behaviour in Reiserfs 3.6 To: mtk-lists@jambit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <041c01c45875$0368e340$c100a8c0@wakatipu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! "Michael Kerrisk" wrote: MK> On a Reiserfs 3.6 file system, I create a directory with the NOTAIL MK> attribute set and create 10000 1-byte files in that directory. lsattr(1) MK> shows that the NOTAIL attribute is set on (i.e., inherited by) all of the MK> files. However, the disk space consumption remains small (certainly not MK> 10000 blocks used). Only when I explicitly set the NOTAIL attribute on all MK> the files does disk consumption rise to what I would expect. In other MK> words, the files are inheriting the NOTAIL attribute form their parent MK> directory, but this inheritance has no effect. I believe there is user error on your part. Extended inode attributes are disabled by default on reiserfs. MK> Detailed example follows: MK> # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda12 /testfs Does it work as expected if you add "-o attrs" to the mount command? Bye, Oleg