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Linux 6.17 Lands New file_getattr & file_setattr System Calls


Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra goodies.

Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra goodies. This is not critical but in the case when special files are created in the directory with already existing project quota, these new inodes inherit extended attributes. The pull request there explains of FS_IOC_GETLBMD_CAP:"This adds the new FS_IOC_GETLBMD_CAP ioctl() to query metadata and protection info (PI) capabilities.

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