On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 02:53:30PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:19:06PM +0100, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> > From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreij...@inwind.it>
> >
> > This ioctl is a base for returning / setting information from / to the
> > fields of the btrfs_dev_item object.
>
> Please don't add a new ioctl for properties, they're using the xattr as
> interface alrady.
We had some earlier discussion about why xattrs on an inode are a
bad idea for this feature:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20210123172118.gj28...@hungrycats.org/
TL;DR they shouldn't be copied from one filesystem to another.
Maybe it's better from a CLI UI point of view to put them under 'btrfs
dev' instead of 'btrfs property'?
