On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 02:49:59AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 04:18:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Zone append is a protocol context that ha not business showing up > > in a file system interface. The right interface is a generic way > > to report the written offset for an append write for any kind of file. > > So we should pick a better name like FMODE_REPORT_APPEND_OFFSET > > (not that I particularly like that name, but it is the best I could > > quickly come up with). > > Is it necessarily *append*? There were a spate of papers about ten > years ago for APIs that were "write anywhere and I'll tell you where it > ended up". So FMODE_ANONYMOUS_WRITE perhaps? But that really is not the semantics I had in mind - both the semantics for the proposed Linux file API and the NVMe Zone Append command say write exactly at the write pointer (NVMe) or end of the file (file API).
