On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 11:20:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Any reason you completely ignored my feedback on the last version > and did not even answer? > > That's not a very productive way to work. I think because he's getting conflicting feedback. The arguments against it being that it's not a good match, however it's the same match created for streams, and no one complained then, and it's an existing user ABI. FDP is a the new "streams", so I really don't see a big deal here. I understand you have use cases that have filesystems intercept the hints for different types of devices, but I don't see these use cases as mutally exclusive. Supporting this one doesn't prevent other uses.
