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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:01:16 +0530
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From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/8] iomap: Add atomic write support for direct-io
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John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> writes:

>>>
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20240124142645.9334-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com/__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!PqMMFBeUqdWwlm0AxVyI_Vr1HPajTQ6AG2_GwK_IrhBSa-Wnz4cc-1w0LEFyTXY9Q9gT0WwhxvXloSqnOHb6Btg$
>>>
>>> and now this one.
>>>
>>> Can the two of you please co-ordinate your efforts and based your
>>> filesysetm work off the same iomap infrastructure changes?
>> 
>> Sure Dave, make sense. But we are cc'ing each other in this effort
>> together so that we are aware of what is being worked upon.
>
> Just cc'ing is not enough. I was going to send my v2 for XFS/iomap 
> support today. I didn't announce that as I did not think that I had to. 

ok. Let me take care of this next time to avoid any overlapping change
hitting the mailing list to avoid double reviews/competing changes from
2 people. Hopefully I can find you on xfs IRC channel in case if I would
like to post anything in the related/overlapping area . My handle is riteshh. 

> Admittedly it will be effectively an RFC, as the forcealign feature (now 
> included) is not mature. But it's going to be a bit awkward to have 2x 
> overlapping series' sent to the list.
>
> FWIW, I think that it's better to send series based on top of other 
> series, rather than cherry-picking necessary parts of other series (when 
> posting)
>

Ok. Sure John. Make sense. Now that I understood what I am looking for
in from iomap side of the changes, I can provide my review comments to
your series, whenever you post them.

Thanks for your feedback.

-ritesh