Re: [PATCH v2 07/13] xfs: Introduce FORCEALIGN inode flag

Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-23T14:42:04Z

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 11:11:28AM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> I am looking at something like this to implement read-only for those inodes:

Yikes. Treating individual inodes in a file systems as read-only
is about the most confusing and harmful behavior we could do.

Just treat it as any other rocompat feature please an mount the entire
file system read-only if not supported.

Or even better let this wait a little, and work with Darrick to work
on the rextsize > 1 reflіnk patches and just make the thing work.

>> So what about forcealign and RT?
>
> Any opinion on this?

What about forcealign and RT?