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

Matthew Wilcox
2025-11-14T13:18:18Z

On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 02:50:25PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> buffered IO. Further, many DBs support both direct IO and buffered IO
> well and it may not be fair to force them to stick to direct IO to get
> the benefits of atomic writes.

It may not be fair to force kernel developers to support a feature that
has no users.