On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:59:10PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > Originally we had code in Linux allowing filesystems to attach > additional metadata to bios which would then be stored in the app tag > space. This was intended for backpointers but never really took off. > However, if we move the burden of PI generation to filesystems as > Christoph suggested, then we can revisit using the app tag space. Just to make clear I want file systems to be able to opt into generating PI, not get rid of the auto generation. That is actually kinda possible already, I just want to make it nicer.
