Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] FDP and per-io hints

Bart Van Assche
2024-10-02T18:34:56Z

On 10/2/24 8:47 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> What irks me is defining application interfaces which fundamentally tell
> the kernel that "these blocks are part of the same file".

Isn't FDP about communicating much more than only this information to
the block device, e.g. information about reclaim units? Although I'm
personally not interested in FDP, my colleagues were involved in the
standardization of FDP.

Thanks,

Bart.