On 10/2/24 1:51 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 10:18:41AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> Have to say, that neither have your responses been. Can't really fault >> people for just giving up at some point, when no productive end seems to >> be in sight. > > I heavily disagree and take offence on that. > > The previous stream separation approach made total sense, but just > needed a fair amount of work. But it closely matches how things work > at the hardware and file system level, so it was the right approach. What am I missing that makes this effort that different from streams? Both are a lifetime hint. > Suddenly dropping that and ignoring all comments really feels like > someone urgently needs to pull a marketing stunt here. I think someone is just trying to finally get this feature in, so it can get used by customers, after many months of fairly unproductive discussion. -- Jens Axboe
