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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/7] ext4: Allocator changes for atomic write support with
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
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On 12/12/2023 13:10, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 07:46:51AM +0000, John Garry wrote:
>> It is assumed that the user will fallocate/dd the complete file before
>> issuing atomic writes, and we will have extent alignment and length as
>> required.
> I don't think that's a long time maintainable usage model.

ok, sure - as I may have mentioned, this was even causing issues in porting.

I sent the v2 series without XFS support, but the same API proposal as 
before. Let's discuss any potential API changes there.

Thanks,
John