On Thu, 25 July 2013 13:09:39 -0700, Zach Brown wrote: > > > > What about introducing a new flag, O_COMPR which tells the > > > kernel, btw, we want this file to be decompressed if it can be. It > > > can fallback to O_RDONLY or something like that? That gets rid of > > > the chattr ugliness. > > > > How is that different from chattr ugliness, which also comes down to a > > single flag? ;) > > It's much worse because it's per fd instead of per inode. > > The page cache, where the undisclosed complexity of this proposal lurks, > where compressed and uncompressed cached copies of the data need to be > managed somehow, is per inode. You've been giving it away! Bad Zach, no cookies tonight. Jörn -- With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. -- Peter J. Schoenster -- 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
