Re: [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN

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On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 09:40:07AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > +stx_dio_offset_align
> > +which must be provided by the file system.
> 
> I can't imagine a filesystem where dio_read_offset > dio_offset makes
> sense, but why do we need to put that in the manpage?

Well, to be backwards compatible to older userspace the value put into
stx_dio_offset_align also needs to work for reads.  Given that there
were questions about this in the RFC round I thought I'd mention it.





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