Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] fs/ntfs3: Add attrib operations

[Mark Harmstone]

On 28/8/20 5:52 pm, Konstantin Komarov wrote:
> Hi Mark! Thanks for the feedback. It's reasonable concern, but the open
> question is how to access those NTFS attributes which extend the DOS
> attributes. user.DOSATTRIB may be good for FAT32 as DOS attributes are stored in 8bit.
> However, this does not apply to NTFS (32bit attributes).

I'm not sure why this would be an issue - the obvious way of reading
user.DOSATTRIB is to use sscanf into an int, and then check for the bits you're
interested in. The NT FILE_ATTRIBUTE_* values replicate and extend the FAT
constants used by DOS, so it shouldn't cause any confusion only exposing the
full 32-bit value.