Re: [PATCH 02/13] iomap: treat inline data in iomap_writepage_map as an I/O error

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On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 08:40:57PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > I think they way it currently works for gfs2 is that writeback from the
> > page cache never goes back into the inline area.  
> > 
> > If we ever have a need to actually write back inline data we could
> > change this code to support it, but right now I just want to make the
> > assert more consistent.
> 
> Question: Do we even /want/ writeback to be initiating transactions
> to log the inline data?  I suppose for ext4/jbd2 that would be the least
> inefficient time to do that.

I think in general not, but it really depends on the file system
architecture.  In other words:  don't touch the current behavior unless
we have a good reason.  I just want to make the error check a little
saner..




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