Re: [PATCH 1/6] xfs: create a blob array data structure

Darrick J. Wong
2024-01-06T18:55:19Z

On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 10:42:01PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 05:33:16PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > (Unless you want to sponsor a pwrite variant that actually does "append
> > and tell me where"? ;))
>
> Damien and I have adding that on our TODO list (through io_uring) to
> better support zonefs and programming models like this one on regular
> files.
>
> But I somehow doubt you'd want xfs_repair to depend on it..

Well in theory some day Dave might come back with his libaio patches for
xfsprogs. After this much time it's a fair question if we'd be better
off aiming for io_uring. <shrug>

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20201015072155.1631135-1-david@fromorbit.com/

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