Re: [PATCH v4 01/15] fs: Rename the kernel-internal data lifetime constants

Bart Van Assche
2023-11-27T19:00:29Z

On 11/26/23 23:08, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> More importantly these constant have been around forever, so we'd better
> have a really good argument for changing them.

Hi Christoph,

I will drop this patch.

As you know the NVMe and SCSI specifications use the numeric range 0..63 for
the data lifetime so there is a gap between the values supported by the
F_[GS]ET_RW_HINT fcntls and the data lifetime values accepted by widely used
storage devices. Do you think that it should be possible for user space
applications to specify the full range (0..63)?

Thanks,

Bart.