From: David Chinner Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:49:44 +1100 Message-ID: <20061207024944.GM44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> References: <20061204235042.GS33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> <20061206091100.GA33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> <20061207005619.GA12320@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <20061207014426.GL44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> <20061207023530.GA17244@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Chinner , Nikolai Joukov , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:53263 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967774AbWLGCuT (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:50:19 -0500 To: Josef Sipek Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061207023530.GA17244@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:35:30PM -0500, Josef Sipek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:44:27PM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > > Maybe we should be using EAs for this sort of thing instead of flags > > on the inode? If we keep adding inode flags for generic features > > then we are going to force more than just XFS into inode format > > changes eventually.... > > Aren't EAs slow? Maybe not on XFS but on other filesystems... Only when they don't fit in the inode itself and extra disk seeks are needed to retrieve them. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group