On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 08:40:57PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > I think they way it currently works for gfs2 is that writeback from the > > page cache never goes back into the inline area. > > > > If we ever have a need to actually write back inline data we could > > change this code to support it, but right now I just want to make the > > assert more consistent. > > Question: Do we even /want/ writeback to be initiating transactions > to log the inline data? I suppose for ext4/jbd2 that would be the least > inefficient time to do that. I think in general not, but it really depends on the file system architecture. In other words: don't touch the current behavior unless we have a good reason. I just want to make the error check a little saner..
