Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: add vm_insert_mixed_mkwrite()

Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-25T08:02:00Z

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 01:14:00AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> I guess it's up to filesystem if it wants to reuse the same spot to write
> data or not. I think your assumptions works for ext4 and xfs. I wouldn't
> be that sure for btrfs or other filesystems with CoW support.

Or XFS with reflinks for that matter. Which currently can't be
combined with DAX, but I had a somewhat working version a few month
ago.