Hi,
in ext4 we have these SECRM, UNRM, COMPR flags which users can set, they
can read them, but which actually don't do anything. This is actually
somewhat confusing - e.g. I've just got report about one tool which
apparently sets SECRM flag on a file in a hope that it is somehow safer.
Also this is a waste of flags.
I've checked other filesystems (xfs, btrfs) and they report EOPNOTSUPP if
these flags are not really supported. Should not we do the same in ext4? I
know there is a concern about breaking userspace but since other major
filesystems already behave this way I think there is a good chance tools
handle this reasonably... What do people thing?
Honza
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Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR