Re: RFC: use the iomap writepage path in gfs2

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On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 10:01:03AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Ok, this doesn't look too bad from the iomap perspective, though it
> does raise more questions. :)
> 
> gfs2 now has two iopaths, right? One that uses bufferheads for
> journalled data, and the other that uses iomap? That seems like it's
> only a partial conversion - what needs to be done to iomap and gfs2
> to support the journalled data path so there's a single data IO
> path?

gfs2 always had to very different writeback I/O paths, including a copy
and pasted versiom of write_cache_pages for journaled data, they just
diverge a little bit more now. In the longer run I'd also like to add
journaled data support to iomap for use with XFS, and then also switch
gfs2 to it. 



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