On Feb 01, 2007 12:41 -0800, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 19:32 +0000, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > > Unfortunately, we need some file system-specific code to access per-file > > > secure deletion and per-file trash bit attributes. These attributes are > > > supported only by some file systems and in different ways. > > The check for fs specific attributes has to be underlying fs code. But > the code the handling the secure delete and trash bin (although now is > only two functions being called) are identical for all fs, could be move > to VFS layer. > > > Yeah, I did see that. I wonder adding some inode or file operation just > > to query the existence of those attributes (or something more generic) > > would be too ugly. > > I gave a brief thought on that yesterday, it was not very pretty:)
Actually, the major filesystems (ext3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs) all use the same lsattr/chattr ioctl as ext2 (EXT2_IOC_GETFLAGS). Maybe this code can just do an ioctl inside the kernel? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
