From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: [PATCH 0/2] ext3 in-inode xattr handling fix for reserved inodes Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:32:44 +0200 Message-ID: <1284467566-12661-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andreas Dilger , Andrew Morton To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:60780 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751943Ab0INMdn (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:33:43 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, the first patch in this series fixes a bug where we could lose extended attributes for ino 11 if lost+found was deleted and inode used again. The second patch makes kernel accept in-inode xattrs even for reserved inodes if they look sane as Andreas suggested. This way we could in theory remove the special casing sometime in future. I'm personally not convinced this is worth the effort since the time when we could remove the special casing is at least several years in future (for example I switch to 2.6.16 or even older kernels on our test machines) but I'm throwing the patch in so that people can express their opinions... Honza