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From: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow setting per-file compression via SMB2/3
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:57:11 +0200
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Am 11.10.2013 05:00, schrieb Steve French:
> Allow cifs/smb2/smb3 to return whether or not a file is compressed
> via lsattr, and allow SMB2/SMB3 to set the per-file compression
> flag ("chattr +c filename" on an smb3 mount).
> 
> A followon patch will do this for cifs
> 
> 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.
> 
> As Metze suggested I split out the part of the patch
> which fixed up the length calculation in the
> SMB2_ioctl worker function as it is more general
> and not compression specific enablement (I
> just noticed the problem when doing this patch).

Thanks!

metze