Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] xfs: single block atomic writes for buffered IO

Dave Chinner
2025-11-12T21:57:00Z

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 04:36:03PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> This patch adds support to perform single block RWF_ATOMIC writes for
> iomap xfs buffered IO. This builds upon the inital RFC shared by John
> Garry last year [1]. Most of the details are present in the respective
> commit messages but I'd mention some of the design points below:

What is the use case for this functionality? i.e. what is the
reason for adding all this complexity?

-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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