Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:11:15 +0300 | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: Strange NOTAIL inheritance behaviour in Reiserfs 3.6 |
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Hello!
"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-lists@jambit.com> wrote:
MK> On a Reiserfs 3.6 file system, I create a directory with the NOTAIL MK> attribute set and create 10000 1-byte files in that directory. lsattr(1) MK> shows that the NOTAIL attribute is set on (i.e., inherited by) all of the MK> files. However, the disk space consumption remains small (certainly not MK> 10000 blocks used). Only when I explicitly set the NOTAIL attribute on all MK> the files does disk consumption rise to what I would expect. In other MK> words, the files are inheriting the NOTAIL attribute form their parent MK> directory, but this inheritance has no effect.
I believe there is user error on your part. Extended inode attributes are disabled by default on reiserfs.
MK> Detailed example follows:
MK> # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda12 /testfs
Does it work as expected if you add "-o attrs" to the mount command?
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