Jens, > So how about we just call it "write_hint"? It sounds mostly like a > naming issue to me, as you would then map that to some specific stream > in your driver. You're free to do that right now. They are all flags, > it's just packed as a value to not waste too much space. Sure, that's fine with me. But let's call them bi_hints or something. I have a couple that I would like to add that are I/O direction agnostic. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering