Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] f2fs: introduce FI_COMPRESS_RELEASED instead of using IMMUTABLE bit

From: Chao Yu
Date: Sun Jun 06 2021 - 09:54:38 EST


On 2021/5/26 4:49, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
Once we release compressed blocks, we used to set IMMUTABLE bit. But it turned
out it disallows every fs operations which we don't need for compression.

Let's just prevent writing data only.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

BTW, we need to expose .i_inline field to userspace since there is no
way to check status of inode whether it has released blocks?

Thanks,