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Re: Chattr

To: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Chattr
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 30 Apr 2002 19:04:33 -0500
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 18:49, Stephen Lord wrote:

> 
> I dug some more and there does not appear to be checking on unused bits
> in the di_flags field of the on disk inode, although that does not
> include xfs_check which is a rather byzantine chunk of code. So it
> might be possible to use a bit in here. Like I said though, right
> now I am not going to get near something like this for quite a while.
> 
> Andi, is immutable checking all done above the vfs or do filesystems
> have to enforce it as well?
> 
> Steve
> 

OK, I answered that myself - maybe we can do this quickly - provided
chattr does not check the filesystem type it is applied too.

Steve



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