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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: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 14:29:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180205222946.GA20317@L-66Y> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180129230816.GM9359@magnolia>

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 03:08:16PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:

> Ted hasn't replied in a couple of days, but I would surmise from digging
> in the ext4 code that we've never exposed the huge file flag to
> userspace, so it'd probably be better to withdraw the documentation/code
> of the 'h' option from the chattr manpage instead.  ext2/ext3 never had
> such a flag at all, so it's unlikely to break anything.

I agree. I'll update my existing patch that makes some updates to the chattr
man page.

Thanks,
Tyson

      reply	other threads:[~2018-02-05 22:29 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
2018-01-29 23:08       ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-05 22:29         ` Tyson Nottingham [this message]

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