From: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze@samba.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
"linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
samba-technical <samba-technical@lists.samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [CIFS] Allow setting per-file compression via SMB3
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:16:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5253B13A.3070403@samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2r5muzG6m8UAc5_OEKT5FGtk-FJgtSH2FaVgQFvmvnR0znZg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Steve,
> Allow cifs/smb2/smb3 to return whether or not a file is compressed
> via lsattr, and allow SMB3 to set the per-file compression flag
> ("chattr +c filename" on an smb3 mount).
Why is this SMB3 specific?
> Windows users often set the compressed flag (it can be
> done from the desktop and file manager). David Disseldorp
> has patches to Samba server to support this (at least on btrfs)
> which are complementary to this.
>
> Wish chattr supported the per-file encryption flag (that
> presumably would be easy to set too via SMB3)
It seems there're some unrelated changes in the commit,
wouldn't it be better to split this into 2 or 3 commits?
metze
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-08 2:45 [PATCH] [CIFS] Allow setting per-file compression via SMB3 Steve French
2013-10-08 7:16 ` Stefan (metze) Metzmacher [this message]
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2013-10-08 14:51 ` Steve French
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