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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Introduce provisioning primitives
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FYI, I really don't think this primitive is a good idea.  In the
concept of non-overwritable storage (NAND, SMR drives) the entire
concept of a one-shoot 'provisioning' that will guarantee later writes
are always possible is simply bogus.