On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 10:24:32AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > It'd be great to fix this universally in the kernel but it seems like > that patch is in discussion for now, and TBH I don't see any real > drawbacks to looping in mkfs - it would also solve the problem on any > old kernel w/o the block layer change. The problem is that we throw out efficiency for no good reason. > I'd propose that we go ahead w/ the mkfs change, and if/when the kernel > handles this better, and it's reasonable to expect that we're running > on a kernel where it can be interrupted, we could remove the mkfs loop > at a later date if we wanted to. I'd rather not touch mkfs if a trivial kernel patch handles the issue.
