On 24/07/2024 00:38, Dave Chinner wrote:
What's the problem with supporting it right from the start?
Simply because I wanted to focus on regular data volume support first.
We already support forcealign for RT, just it's a global config under the "big rt alloc" moniker rather than a per-inode flag. Like all on-disk format change based features, forcealign should add the EXPERIMENTAL flag to the filesystem for a couple of releases after merge, so there will be plenty of time to test both data and rt dev functionality before removing the EXPERIMENTAL flag from it. So why not just enable the per-inode flag with RT right from the start given that this functionality is supposed to work and be globally supported by the rtdev right now? It seems like a whole lot less work to just enable it for RT now than it is to disable it...
I'll have a look... if it really is that easy, then - yes - we can have it from the start.
