From: Tyson Nottingham <tgnottingham@gmail.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: make huge file flag user visible.
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 14:29:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180205222946.GA20317@L-66Y> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180129230816.GM9359@magnolia>
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 03:08:16PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Ted hasn't replied in a couple of days, but I would surmise from digging
> in the ext4 code that we've never exposed the huge file flag to
> userspace, so it'd probably be better to withdraw the documentation/code
> of the 'h' option from the chattr manpage instead. ext2/ext3 never had
> such a flag at all, so it's unlikely to break anything.
I agree. I'll update my existing patch that makes some updates to the chattr
man page.
Thanks,
Tyson
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-05 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-24 4:15 [PATCH] ext4: make huge file flag user visible Tyson Nottingham
2018-01-24 5:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-24 5:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-25 7:48 ` Tyson Nottingham
2018-01-29 23:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-05 22:29 ` Tyson Nottingham [this message]
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