On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 05:58:08AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 12:15:15PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > So far I've put the reflink flag to use in xfs_scrub to look for > > obvious signs of brokenness such as extents that overlap or have the > > shared flag set but the inode flag is off; and to skip various kinds > > of checks that don't have to happen when blocks don't overlap. > > > > I doubt there's much of a use for the flag outside of the XFS utilities. > > For a while I pondered only exposing the fsxattr flag if the caller had > > CAP_SYS_ADMIN (the level of priviledge required to run scrub) but > > decided that I wouldn't change the existing interface like that unless > > I had a really good reason. > > I don't think CAP_SYS_ADMIN is nessecarily the right thing, but it's > still an XFS implementation detail which I don't think we should > pollute a flags API for normal user space applications with. I can work around it in xfs_scrub, so I'll give back the xflag bit for reflink. --D -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
