On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 10:10:24AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > It might be time to move this code into shared files? > > I think Chandan started looking into what it would take to port the log > code from the kernel into userspace. Then xfs_trans_commit in userspace > could actually write transactions to the log and write them back > atomically; and xfs_repair could finally lose the -L switch. While that does sound like a really good idea, it's now what I meant here. I think if we moved the actual defer ops instances out of the _item.c files into libxfs, I think we could reuse them for the current way of operating in userspace quite easily with strategic stubs for some functionality.
