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From: Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>,
	Nikolai Joukov <kolya@cs.sunysb.edu>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:45:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165470352.30459.14.camel@edge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061207014426.GL44411608@melbourne.sgi.com>

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:44 +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> Maybe we should be using EAs for this sort of thing instead of flags
> on the inode? If we keep adding inode flags for generic features
> then we are going to force more than just XFS into inode format
> changes eventually....

You do need to be judicious in what you add, but we got up to here
(well over 10 years) with 16 bits worth of space - increasing to 32
bits is going to last a fairly long time... I wouldn't switch to a
different scheme until that point (which is also the point where the
system calls are going to have to change anyway).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-07  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-04 18:33 [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4 Nikolai Joukov
2006-12-04 23:50 ` David Chinner
2006-12-05 16:41   ` Nikolai Joukov
2006-12-06  9:11     ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 22:16       ` Nathan Scott
2006-12-07  0:56       ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-07  1:44         ` David Chinner
2006-12-07  2:35           ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-07  2:49             ` David Chinner
2006-12-07  3:14               ` Nicholas Miell
2006-12-07  5:35                 ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-07  5:45           ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2006-12-09  1:44       ` Nikolai Joukov

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