On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 09:09:35AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote: > From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> > > A block device may support write hints on a per-io basis. The raw block > file operations can effectively use these, but real filesystems are not > ready to make use of this. Provide a file_operations flag to indicate > support, and set it for the block file operations. I'm a little worried about the overly generic "hint" think again. Make it very explicit about the write streams and this make sense.
