On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 04:07:02PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > I believe you are referring to the patchset that enables bs > ps for block > devices - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20241113094727.1497722-1-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx/ I actually thought of: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg98151.html but yes, the one you pointed to is more relevant. > In fact I was trying to see if it is possible to advertise large folio > support in bdev mapping only for those block devices which don't have FS > mounted on them. But apparently it was not so straight forward and my > initial attempt at this resulted in FS corruption. Hence I resorted to the > current ioctl approach as a way to showcase the problem and the potential > benefit. Well, if you use the ioctl and then later mount a file system, you'll still see the same corruption.
