From: Tyson Nottingham Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: make huge file flag user visible. Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 14:29:46 -0800 Message-ID: <20180205222946.GA20317@L-66Y> References: <1516767348-30444-1-git-send-email-tgnottingham@gmail.com> <20180124050333.GC5594@magnolia> <20180124050930.GF5594@magnolia> <20180125074811.GA24022@L-66Y> <20180129230816.GM9359@magnolia> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca To: "Darrick J. Wong" Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f68.google.com ([74.125.83.68]:38608 "EHLO mail-pg0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750796AbeBEW3v (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:29:51 -0500 Received: by mail-pg0-f68.google.com with SMTP id l18so1902312pgc.5 for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:29:50 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180129230816.GM9359@magnolia> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 03:08:16PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Ted hasn't replied in a couple of days, but I would surmise from digging > in the ext4 code that we've never exposed the huge file flag to > userspace, so it'd probably be better to withdraw the documentation/code > of the 'h' option from the chattr manpage instead. ext2/ext3 never had > such a flag at all, so it's unlikely to break anything. I agree. I'll update my existing patch that makes some updates to the chattr man page. Thanks, Tyson