Re: [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4

[Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 20:11 +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> ...
> If all we need to add to XFS is support for those flags, then XFS
> support would be trivial to add.
> 
> Oh, damn. I take that back. We're almost out of flag space in the on
> disk inode - these two flags would use the last 2 flag bits so this
> may require an on disk inode format change in XFS. This will be
> a little more complex than I first thought, ...

It should be OK - you can do it without an inode version revision
if you take a second 16 bits for "di_flags2" from here...

xfs_dinode_core {
        ...
        __uint8_t       di_pad[8];      /* unused, zeroed space */

Its guaranteed zeroed initially (i.e. all flags unset) and the XFS
get/set flags APIs are 32 bits, so you should be OK there.

Also, it may also be possible to reclaim di_onlink at some point (maybe
now, since 16 bits would be good here) if mkfs.xfs is changed to always
create v2 inodes (dynamic conversion ATM IIRC)... not 100% sure though,
needs more code analysis.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan