On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 03:18:07PM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion. > > Yeah, we could fix the realtime inode problem by just drop this part, but > for the upcoming forcealign feature and atomic feature by John, IIUC, we > couldn't split and convert the tail extent like RT inode does, we should > zero out the entire tail force aligned extent, if not, atomic write could > be broken by submitting unaligned bios. Let's worry about that if/when those actually land. I also see no rason why those couldn't just use partially convert to unwritten path offhand (but without having looked into the details).