Re: [PATCH v6 10/13] xfs: iomap COW-based atomic write support

Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-18T05:35:22Z

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 02:56:52PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> ok, fine. I am just worried that these commit messages become too wordy.
> But, if people want this info, then I can provide it.

While too wordy commit messages do exit, you're really far from that
threshold. So yes, please explain this.

I think we also really need a document outside of commit logs and
comments that explains the exact atomic write semantics and how
we implement them between the hardware offload and always COW writes.