<table><tr><td style="">bruns added a comment.<br />Restricted Application added a project: Baloo.
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<p>Currently, it sets the NO_COW flag on BTRFS, but this is insufficient:</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">XFS - <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/747633/" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://lwn.net/Articles/747633/</a></li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">F2FS</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">Hammer2 ?</li>
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<p>At least on Linux, the correct thing is to *try* to set the no_cow flag, and silently ignore any <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">EOPNOTSUPP</tt> errors.</p>
<p>Thats what I get on Linux for:</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">File without permission to write: <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">ioctl(3, FS_IOC_SETFLAGS, 0x7ffee879084c) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)</tt></li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">On an old XFS: <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">ioctl(3, FS_IOC_SETFLAGS, 0x7fff8e52467c) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported)</tt></li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">BTRFS: <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">ioctl(3, FS_IOC_SETFLAGS, 0x7fff06817a2c) = 0</tt></li>
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<p>This way the code is future proof even when a new FS appears or an old one gains new features.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R293 Baloo</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D5784">https://phabricator.kde.org/D5784</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>tcberner, FreeBSD, kfunk, poboiko<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>bruns, adridg, kfunk, Frameworks, ashaposhnikov, michaelh, astippich, spoorun, ngraham, alexeymin<br /></div>