Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] Documentation: dm-integrity: Document the meaning of "buffer".

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On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 10:08:51PM -0700, Russell Harmon wrote:
> +Accesses to the on-disk metadata area containing checksums (aka tags) are
> +buffered using dm-bufio. When an access to any given metadata area
> +occurs, each unique metadata area gets its own buffer(s). The buffer size
> +is capped at the size of the metadata area, but may be smaller, thereby
> +requiring multiple buffers to represent the full metadata area. A smaller
> +buffer size will produce a smaller resulting read/write operation to the
> +metadata area for small reads/writes. The metadata is still read even in
> +a full write to the data covered by a single buffer.
> +

LGTM, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>

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