> it's only used in a workaround when clearing FS_NOCOW_FL fails.
Clearing FS_NOCOW_FL doesn't work on btrfs for non-empty files. So what do you think journald is doing when it notices that it can't clear the flag?
Clearing FS_NOCOW_FL doesn't work on btrfs for non-empty files. So what do you think journald is doing when it notices that it can't clear the flag?
and that seems like something btrfs should fix at some point
> When did this become a discussion limited to journald on btrfs?
btrfs is in the HN thread title.
> and that seems like something btrfs should fix at some point
Amazing. The Linux kernel should change to work around journald's inflexibility?
What someone should fix at some point is journald's strange IO patterns and hard-coded "helpful" attribute changes. I'd rather it just rename the file and let me do any defrag/compression/flag-setting I want than do anything with chattr behind my back in ways I can't even configure.
as is ext4