Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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*
The 'star' command has an -xattr option. -- ljk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
