Re: [RFC] vfs: skip extra attributes check on removal for symlinks

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On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 05:17:41PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 12:03:28AM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Groovy, thanks, let's not forget the xfs_repair respective fix :) let me know
> > if you have any feedback on that.
> 
> TBH I've lost any proposed xfs_repair patches to the mists of time
> because some patch volcano keeps erupting on the lists. :P
> 
> Uh... I think it's fine for xfs_{repair,scrub} to clear the immutable
> and append flags on any special inodes it finds, particularly since
> neither flag has any real meaning for block/char/fifo/socket/symlinks
> anyway.

Sure, my point during review of that series for xfs_repair in particular
though was that for symlinks the justification is different (half of the
commit log in this new patch), as such I'd prefer to deal with them in a
separate follow up patch.

  Luis
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