Subject: Re: Fix ea-in-inode default ACL creation
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Andrew Tridgell <tridge@osdl.org>,
       Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>, Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 22:36, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Ugh.  It feels horrible to have to do this, but we _do_ want to clear
> the raw inode, and we only want to do it once, and we have to do it on
> first access to the on-disk structures.  I can't see an easy way round
> it that doesn't add more overhead.

Well, we could split EXT3_STATE_NEW into a "GOOD_OLD_NEW" flag for the
first 128 bytes and a "BIG_INODE_NEW" flag for the rest, and only
initialize the rest in the xattr code when necessary. Not any better it
I suppose. Note that this change has no effect except with default ACLs
anyway.

-- Andreas.

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