On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:44:47AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > I had planned to make the bits inheritable from the directory inode > flags. There are two different discussions around xattrs for this. One > is using xattrs to store the flag, which I'd would rather avoid because > it is checked in some performance critical places. > > The second is using xattr programs to set the flag, which I don't really > have an opinion on. The idea of having the flags backed up by backup > programs or rsync is really nice, but do any of the backup programs > actually copy out all the xattrs? xfsdump does :) But I think especially the compressed bit is much better off in the bit for the set/get flags ioctls used by chattr / lsattr. These are implemented by all Linux filesystems, and even have a compressed bit allocated already. (and xfsdump of course backs them up, too ;-)) *run* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
