Re: [PATCH] ext4: make huge file flag user visible.

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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 09:09:30PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:

> > Pardon my asking, but why is this necessary?  Are there
> > userspace-visible effects of this flag?
> 
> Ahh, the chattr man page says that 'h' means HUGE_FILE_FL, but I guess
> ext4 won't report it to userspace...?
> 
> <shrug> XFS won't either, maybe we just kill the 'h' option? :)

Thanks for responses. Yes, I was just trying to make ext4 consistent with the
man page. Since apparently the flag was intended to be user visible at some
point, I thought it would be fine to make it so. As you said, removing it from
chattr/lsattr is another option. I'll do whatever I'm told. :)

Tyson



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