On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 01:53:42PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Here I'm not so sure. Firstly, since you are an owner this doesn't add any > additional practical restriction. Secondly, you are not changing anything > on disk, just IO hints in memory... Thirdly, we generally don't require > writeable fd even to do file attribute changes (like with fchmod, fchown, > etc.). So although the check makes some sense, it seems to be mostly > inconsistent with how we treat similar stuff. As I said I'm not quite convince either, so just doing the first one is probably fine.
