Re: per-file NOCOW in 3.7

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:48:08AM -0500, Marios Titas wrote:
> According to the tentative changelog in the wiki, 3.7 will properly
> support per-file NOCOW. I think this is misleading. In particular, it
> still does not work correctly in the case when the NOCOW flag of a new
> flag is being inherited from the directory. I think it would be better
> to remove that item from the changelog until the the fix [1] is
> merged.
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1438431/

You're right, the patch is not in 3.7-rc nor in btrfs-next, and fixes a
real bug.

Technically it is a regresssion within the 3.7 cycle (so it could even
go to a late -rc), in any case it's a small change that could also go
through the stable tree.

david
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