From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>,
Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
linux-ext4 List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: Deprecate data=journal mount option
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:06:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110814020617.GB3524@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110812205719.GA1670@infradead.org>
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 04:57:19PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > and differences in error code returns for
> > xattrs) and #79 (a failure in the append-only handling which I don't
> > completely understand yet).
>
> This was discussed on fsdevel lately. All filesystem but xfs inherit
> the append only bit from directories to files created inside them.
> This not only is not very useful behaviour, but also exposes a bug
> in the vfs that allows to create these new files, but fail the open
> unless using O_APPEND which is against the posix create semantics.
I agree that disabling inheritance of the APPEND_FL flag makes sense.
I propose we do this for ext2/3/4 and any other file systems which is
currently following the ext2/3/4 behavior.
Any objections?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-14 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-28 11:26 [PATCH v2] ext4: Deprecate data=journal mount option Lukas Czerner
2011-06-29 4:49 ` Bruce Guenter
2011-06-29 11:49 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-08-11 15:01 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-08-11 21:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-08-12 8:16 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-08-12 8:25 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-08-12 15:45 ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-08-12 16:08 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-08-12 18:13 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-08-12 20:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-14 2:06 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-08-14 2:28 ` [PATCH] ext2,ext3,ext4: don't inherit APPEND_FL or IMMUTABLE_FL for new inodes Theodore Ts'o
2011-12-22 18:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-12-22 18:19 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-22 18:23 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-08-15 11:19 ` [PATCH v2] ext4: Deprecate data=journal mount option Jan Kara
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