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