Re: [RFC PATCH v1 11/18] xfs: add async buffered write support

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On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:12:05AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > I still don't understand why /any/ of this is necessary.  When does
> > iocb->ki_filp->f_inode != iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping->host? 
> 
> I already asked that question because I don't know the answer,
> either. I suspect the answer is "block dev inodes" but that then
> just raises the question of "how do we get them here?" and I don't
> know the answer to that, either. I don't have the time to dig into
> this and I don't expect anyone to just pop up with an answer,
> either. So in the mean time, we can just ignore it for the purpose
> of this patch set...

Weird device nodes (including block device) is the answer.  It never
happens for a normal file system file struct that we'd see in XFS.



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