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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 01:40:22PM +0200, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
> This flag was added to the kernel in v6.17. As of now, only ext4
> supports this flag.

block device nodes also support it.