On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 02:54:51PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > FS managed/created hints is a different topic altogether, > and honestly > that is not the scope of this series. That needs to be thought at per-FS > level due to different data/meta layouts. No, it is not. If you design an API where hints bypass the file system you fundamentally do the wrong thing when there is a file system. No one is asking to actually implement file system support in this series, but we need to consider the fundamental problem in the API design. And yes, the actual implementation will be highly dependent on the file system. > This scope of this series is to enable application-managed hints passing > through the file system. FS only needs to pass what it receives. Which fundamentally can't work for even a semi-intelligent file system.
