On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 09:59:27AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:46:16AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> > We'll definitely move in line with the common API over time.  Thanks
> > Anand for starting this!
> > 
> > I'd prefer that we keep it per-subvolume for now, just because
> > subvolumes are so cheap and because it seems like a better collection
> > point for general use.  But as the other filesystems add features we'll
> > make sure and keep parity with what users expect.
> 
> We already have per-file encryption in f2fs and ext4, and both have
> a compatible userspace API and ABI.  It would be a pitty to deviate
> from that intead of reusing it, and if needed extending it.

I wasn't very clear here sorry.  per-subvolume is my favorite way, but
we'll go with the existing ABIs as well.  There's no reason to be
different.

-chris

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