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-rw-r--r--fs/ntfs/ChangeLog2
-rw-r--r--fs/ntfs/layout.h4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
index dea7424..50a7749 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ ToDo/Notes:
- $EA attributes can be both resident and non-resident.
- Use %z for size_t to fix compilation warnings. (Andrew Morton)
- Fix compilation warnings with gcc-4.0.2 on SUSE 10.0.
+ - Document extended attribute ($EA) NEED_EA flag. (Based on libntfs
+ patch by Yura Pakhuchiy.)
2.1.24 - Lots of bug fixes and support more clean journal states.
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/layout.h b/fs/ntfs/layout.h
index 71b25da..f5678d5 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/layout.h
+++ b/fs/ntfs/layout.h
@@ -2374,7 +2374,9 @@ typedef struct {
* Extended attribute flags (8-bit).
*/
enum {
- NEED_EA = 0x80
+ NEED_EA = 0x80 /* If set the file to which the EA belongs
+ cannot be interpreted without understanding
+ the associates extended attributes. */
} __attribute__ ((__packed__));
typedef u8 EA_FLAGS;
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