On 20/01/2021 17:09, Josef Bacik wrote: > I'm not against adding new actual keys and items > to the tree itself, but is there a way we could use our existing property > infrastructure that we use for compression, and simply store the xattrs in > the > tree root? It looks like we're just toggling a policy decision, and we don't > actually need the other properties in the item you've created, so why not > just a > btrfs.preferred_metadata property with the value stored in it, dropped into > the > tree_root so it can be read on mount?
+1 from my side as well. I have the need for this in a planned/future series and I'd be more than happy if someone else would've already implemented it so I can jump on the train there.
