Fwd: Linux hfsplus corrupts chflags bits?

[Paolo Giarrusso]

[Re-sending to LKML - it was rejected because my phone sent the mail
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There was a similar problem with the userflags field - we were writing
> random data.
Ouch, sorry for the noise! I'm pretty sure it's exactly the same
problem: I wrote rootflags but meant userflags.
I might be wrong, but I think that's the case because your bugfix was
merged after 3.3. Instead I was running 3.2.

Somewhat unrelatedly, I noticed that most flags can't be set even by
ioctl, so Linux backup utilities can't preserve those flags.
Is that something which could be fixed, say by exposing them as
extended attributes?

I'll doublecheck that all randomly set flags are indeed userflags. To
be sure: userflags contains flags which can be set by the owner, while
rootflags can only be altered by the superuser, right? So I can check
here on Darwin's man chflags
(https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/10.6/man1/chflags.1.html)

Cheers,
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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student
http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~pgiarrusso/
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