Re: [PATCH 3/3] ext4: Inode flags diet

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On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 01:04:34PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Remove 6 inode flags that were apparently never used and only take up
> space in inode flags field which is already full.
> 
> There are also other inode flags of doubtful use (not used by current
> Linux kernel - IMAGIC, NOTAIL, EA_INODE) but let's leave them there for
> now since I'm not quite sure about their status.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

The secure delete flag was honored by ext2, although not by ext3 or ext4

As for the rest --- you've picked up on my secret plan --- which was
to keep them around to make sure people didn't try to allocate any
flags without thinking *really* hard about it.  :-)

      	      	       		     	   	- Ted
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