On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:26:20PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:11:28AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote: > > From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Including the fs list this time. > > > > I am still working on a better interface to report the dio alignment to > > an application. The most recent suggestion of using statx is proving to > > be less straight forward than I thought, but I don't want to hold this > > series up for that. > > > > Note that I already implemented the statx support and sent it out for review: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20220211061158.227688-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u > However, the patch series only received one comment. I can send it out again if > people have become interested in it again... Thanks, I didn't see that the first time around, but I'll be sure to look at your new version. It sounds like you encountered the same problem I did regarding block device handles: the devtmpfs inodes for the raw block device handles are not the bdev inodes. I do think it's useful the alignment attributes are accessible through the block device files, though.
