On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:14 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have looked a bit at e4defrag, and it does not appear to prevent the > relocation of files marked immutable. This is a problem for boot > loaders, which may need to have a block pointer to a specific file in > order to bootstrap themselves. > > Would it be possible to either: > > a) prevent e4defrag and/or EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT from relocating an > immutable file, or > b) add a new attribute with the above property (in case there is > legitimate need to move around immutable files)? > > -hpa Other projects / tools than e4defrag use EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, so it would be best to do this in the kernel in my opinion. Greg -- 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
