On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 05:06:47AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > There's maybe a > separate discussion to be had for "What should the API be for filesystems > to access metadata on the block device" because I don't believe the > page-cache based APIs are easy for fs authors to use. OK sure, and *why* that would be good, yes sure. Perhaps that should be dicussed first though as then it I think may be easier to possibly celebrate IOMAP. > Maybe some related topics are > "What testing should we require for some of these ancient filesystems?" Oh yes.... > "Whose job is it to convert these 35 filesystems anyway, can we just > delete some of them?" > "Is there a lower-performance but easier-to-implement API than iomap > for old filesystems that only exist for compatibiity reasons?" Yes... Luis
