On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 07:29:45AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > attributes_mask contains attribute flags known to the filesystem, > whereas attributes contains flags actually set on the file. > "known_attributes" would have been a better name, but that's water under > the bridge. :P
Oooh. I think I was very confused at what this patch does, and what it does seems confused as well. The patch adds a new flag to the STATX_ATTR_* namespace, which historically was used for persistent on-disk flags like immutable, not the STATX_* namespace where I assumed it, and which has no support mask. Which seems really odd for a pure kernel feature. Then again it seems to follow STATX_ATTR_WRITE_ATOMIC which seems just as wrongly place unless I'm missing something?
