On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 09:17:35AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 05:13:44PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Well, he finally started on the right approach and gave it up after the > > first round of feedback. That's just a bit weird. > > Nothing prevents future improvements in that direction. It just seems > out of scope for what Kanchan is trying to enable for his customer use > cases. This patch looks harmless. It's not really. Once we wire it up like this we mess up the ability to use the feature in other ways. Additionally the per-I/O hints are simply broken if you want a file system in the way as last time, and if I don't misremember you acknowledged in person last week.