On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 10:31:57AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Suggesting that someone else should do the work to tidy up the loose > on-disk format ends in the kernel and userspace in preference to a > one line hack that works around the problem goes against all the > agreements we've had for bringing experimental code up to production > quality. This isn't how to engineer high quality, robust long lived > code... I don't think it is entirely unreasonable. The code works totally fine by not forcing attr for parent as Darrick pointed out. It's also kinda suboptimal and stupid as you pointed out. So if you care about it, just sending a patch would be a lot nicer than ranting.
