On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 06:02:47PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote: > And I really hope that you don't want to do DIO to the *Merkle tree*, as that Not for XFS - the merkle tree is not held as file data. That said, the merkle tree in XFS is not page cache or block aligned metadata either, so we really want the same memory buffer based interface for the merkle tree reading so that the merkle tree code can read directly from the xfs-buf rather than requiring us to copy it out of the xfsbuf into temporary pages... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx