Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: cleanup XFS_IOC_SETXATTR behaviour

[Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:46:03AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> A while back Iustin Pop sent a patch to fix a problem with being
> unable to set extent size hint values on directories. That patch -
> along with new xfstests functionality to always check the scratch
> device after a test - has pointed out that we allow certain
> directory only inode flags to be set on other types of inodes (e.g.
> regular files). It also pointed out that we could set extent size
> hints on inodes that don't have extent size hint flags set.

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> Thoughts, comments, flames?

Thanks for sending these - I didn't forget about my patches, just was
busy with other stuff. I was planning to update those patches based on
your comments and resend them in the next week or so.

iustin