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From: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
To: Daeho Jeong <daeho43@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kernel-team@android.com
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>, Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] f2fs: introduce device aliasing file
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:40:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54325522-b7fa-4629-bc90-ca5e5127ae85@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241010192626.1597226-1-daeho43@gmail.com>

On 2024/10/11 3:26, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
> 
> F2FS should understand how the device aliasing file works and support
> deleting the file after use. A device aliasing file can be created by
> mkfs.f2fs tool and it can map the whole device with an extrent, not
> using node blocks. The file space should be pinned and normally used for
> read-only usages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>

> ---
> v5: added a ioctl to know whether a file is for device aliasing

IMO, maybe we need to add a common wrapper to export all trivial flags of
f2fs, which can improve scalability, it benefits the case whenever we want
to export new flags.

Thanks,

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-12  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-10 19:26 [PATCH v5] f2fs: introduce device aliasing file Daeho Jeong
2024-10-12  2:40 ` Chao Yu [this message]
2024-10-14  5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-14 16:28   ` Daeho Jeong
2024-10-14 16:42     ` [f2fs-dev] " Jaegeuk Kim
2024-10-15  5:05       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-15 16:56         ` Jaegeuk Kim
2024-10-15  5:02     ` Christoph Hellwig

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