On 7/29/2011 2:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Stefan Behrens wrote: >> The difference between the filesystems is whether the append-only >> flag from the directory is inherited to the newly create file inside >> that directory. XFS does not inherit that append-only flag, ext2, >> ext3, ext4 and btrfs do inherit it. > Having different behaviour for different filesystems is a bad thing, > and given that XFS is the lonely one out there I think we should > remove the inheritance. I'll preparate a patch for it. In order to make it consistent, it would be needed to _add_ the inheritance to XFS, not to remove it from XFS. Or to remove it from ext2, ext3, ext4 and btrfs. A different thread is whether it makes sense to inherit this flag from directories to files. I would prefer to not inherit the append-only flag from a directory to files created in that directory, because the use case for setting the append-only flag on directories is different to the use case for having the flag set on files. I cannot imagine use cases where the inheritance of this flag from the directory to the file is useful. But I cannot find real-world use cases for setting this flag on directories anyway, to all imaginable needs in this area the solution is the sticky bit on the directory or ACLs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
