Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2010-01-20, at 02:03, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote: ... >> If we remove ext4_ioctl support i guess that patch can become much >> simpler. > > > Sure it will be simpler, but less useful. The point of exposing this > flag via lsattr is to allow userspace to determine which files are > holding blocks beyond EOF, so that if the filesystem is getting too full > it is possible to run e.g. "lsattr -R" and find files with this EOF > attribute and truncate them. Without keeping at least the EOFBLOCKS > flag in USER_VISIBLE this is impossible. Well, I submitted an updated patch without it. We can add another when we sort out what we really want with the flags, but fixing the corruption e2fsck finds seems paramount. I think the case of stray files w/ blocks past EOF is probably pretty rare - but I guess I agree, at least seeing the flags would be nice. But let's handle that separately... -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
