Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] ntfs: persist immutable in the $LXFLAGS EA

From: Hyunchul Lee

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 21:25:29 EST


Hi Baolin,

2026년 9월 20일 (일) 오후 5:32, Baolin Liu <liubaolin12138@xxxxxxx>님이 작성:
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> From: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Add a fileattr setter for immutable and store its state in bit 0 of a
> little-endian u32 in the private $LXFLAGS EA. Reuse the standard NTFS EA
> attributes and restore the flag when loading an inode, so eviction and
> unmount do not discard the setting.


I think that the name $LXFLAGS is not appropriate. the prefix $LX
seems to be a WSL-owned namespace. The name could cause
confusion or a future semantics collision with Windows WSL.

Thanks,
Hyunchul