On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:25:28AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > performance benefits for some drives. After all you can just think about it > like RWH_WRITE_LIFE_JOURNAL type of hint available for the kernel... Except that it actuallys adds a parallel insfrastructure. A RWH_WRITE_LIFE_JOURNAL would be much more palatable, but someone needs to explain how that is: a) different from RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT b) would not apply to a log/journal maintained in userspace that works exactly the same