On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 09:37:44AM -1000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > I have submitted a pull request for fio such that my tests can be run > even if F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT is not supported (see also > https://github.com/axboe/fio/pull/1682). > > The only other application that I found that uses F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT is > Ceph. Do we want to make the Ceph code work again that uses > F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT? I think this code cannot be converted to > F_SET_RW_HINT. Well, let's pull a few folks in. I'd personally prefer not carrying this around in the file and supporting different write hints in the same inode, which also makes things a mess for file systems.