Re: [RFC 0/7] ext4: Allocator changes for atomic write support with DIO

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On 12/12/2023 13:10, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 07:46:51AM +0000, John Garry wrote:
It is assumed that the user will fallocate/dd the complete file before
issuing atomic writes, and we will have extent alignment and length as
required.
I don't think that's a long time maintainable usage model.

ok, sure - as I may have mentioned, this was even causing issues in porting.

I sent the v2 series without XFS support, but the same API proposal as before. Let's discuss any potential API changes there.

Thanks,
John




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