Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: do not change inode flags in rename

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:04:42PM +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> Before we forced to change a file's NOCOW and COMPRESS flag due to
> the parent directory's, but this ends up a bad idea, because it
> confuses end users a lot about file's NOCOW status, eg. if someone
> change a file to NOCOW via 'chattr' and then rename it in the current
> directory which is without NOCOW attribute, the file will lose the
> NOCOW flag silently.
> 
> This diables 'change flags in rename', so from now on we'll only
> inherit flags from the parent directory on creation stage while in
> other places we can use 'chattr' to set NOCOW or COMPRESS flags.
> 
> Reported-by: Marios Titas <redneb8888@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx>
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