Re: [PATCH 13/14] block: Allow REQ_FUA|REQ_READ

Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-20T05:40:56Z

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:10:49PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> Maybe just change the commit log. Read FUA has legit uses for persisting
> data as described by the specs. No need to introduce contested behavior
> to justify this patch, yah?

While not having a factually incorrect commit message is a great
start I still don't think we want it. For one there is no actual
use case for the actual semantics, so why add it? Second it still
needs all the proper per-driver opt-in as these sematncis are not
defined for all out protocols as I've already mentioned before.

But hey, maybe Kent can actually find other storage or file system
developers to support it, so having an at least technically correct
patch out on the list would be a big start, even if I would not expect
to Jens to take it in a whim.