From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
axboe@kernel.dk, brauner@kernel.org, djwong@kernel.org,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jack@suse.cz, dchinner@redhat.com,
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martin.petersen@oracle.com, catherine.hoang@oracle.com,
mcgrof@kernel.org, ritesh.list@gmail.com, ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 5/8] xfs: Support FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 07:42:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241007054229.GA307@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4d2180a-8baa-4636-a0a1-36e474fcd157@oracle.com>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 02:07:05PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> Sure, that is true (about being able to atomically write 1x FS block if the
> bdev support it).
>
> But if we are going to add forcealign or similar later, then it would make
> sense (to me) to have FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES (and its other flags) from the
> beginning. I mean, for example, if FS_XFLAG_FORCEALIGN were enabled and we
> want atomic writes, setting FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES would be rejected if AG
> count is not aligned with extsize, or extsize is not a power-of-2, or
> extsize exceeds bdev limits. So FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES could have some value
> there.
>
> As such, it makes sense to have a consistent user experience and require
> FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES from the beginning.
Well, even with forcealign we're not going to lose support for atomic
writes <= block size, are we?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-07 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-04 9:22 [PATCH v7 0/8] block atomic writes for xfs John Garry
2024-10-04 9:22 ` [PATCH v7 1/8] block/fs: Pass an iocb to generic_atomic_write_valid() John Garry
2024-10-04 9:22 ` [PATCH v7 2/8] fs: Export generic_atomic_write_valid() John Garry
2024-10-04 9:22 ` [PATCH v7 3/8] fs/block: Check for IOCB_DIRECT in generic_atomic_write_valid() John Garry
2024-10-04 12:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-04 12:45 ` John Garry
2024-10-04 9:22 ` [PATCH v7 4/8] fs: iomap: Atomic write support John Garry
2024-10-04 9:22 ` [PATCH v7 5/8] xfs: Support FS_XFLAG_ATOMICWRITES John Garry
2024-10-04 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-04 13:07 ` John Garry
2024-10-07 5:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-10-13 21:06 ` John Garry
2024-10-16 0:52 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-10-04 9:22 ` [PATCH v7 6/8] xfs: Support atomic write for statx John Garry
2024-10-04 9:22 ` [PATCH v7 7/8] xfs: Validate atomic writes John Garry
2024-10-04 9:22 ` [PATCH v7 8/8] xfs: Support setting FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE John Garry
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