From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Copy i_flags to ext3 inode flags on write (version 2) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:53:37 -0700 Message-ID: <20070420005337.91beacfe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070417103855.GB11815@duck.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:46029 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992421AbXDTHyP (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:54:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070417103855.GB11815@duck.suse.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:38:55 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > attached is a second version of a patch that stores inode flags such as > S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. from i_flags to EXT3_I(inode)->i_flags when > inode is written to disk. The same thing is done on GETFLAGS ioctl. > Quota code changes these flags on quota files (to make it harder for > sysadmin to screw himself) and these changes were not correctly > propagated into the filesystem (especially, lsattr did not show them and > users were wondering...). Andrew, could you please put the patch into your > queue? Thanks. umm, OK. What about ext2 and all the zillions of others?