From: Tyson Nottingham <tgnottingham@gmail.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: make huge file flag user visible.
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:48:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180125074811.GA24022@L-66Y> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180124050930.GF5594@magnolia>
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 09:09:30PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Pardon my asking, but why is this necessary? Are there
> > userspace-visible effects of this flag?
>
> Ahh, the chattr man page says that 'h' means HUGE_FILE_FL, but I guess
> ext4 won't report it to userspace...?
>
> <shrug> XFS won't either, maybe we just kill the 'h' option? :)
Thanks for responses. Yes, I was just trying to make ext4 consistent with the
man page. Since apparently the flag was intended to be user visible at some
point, I thought it would be fine to make it so. As you said, removing it from
chattr/lsattr is another option. I'll do whatever I'm told. :)
Tyson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-25 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-24 4:15 [PATCH] ext4: make huge file flag user visible Tyson Nottingham
2018-01-24 5:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-24 5:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-25 7:48 ` Tyson Nottingham [this message]
2018-01-29 23:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-05 22:29 ` Tyson Nottingham
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