linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] ext4: Add atomic block write documentation

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Message-ID: <920cd126-7cee-4fe5-a4ab-b2c826eb8b8c@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 14:05:05 +0100
From: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, djwong@...nel.org,
        Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        cem@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] ext4: Add atomic block write documentation

On 16/05/2025 13:19, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

+ Carlos

> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 09:55:09AM +0100, John Garry wrote:
>> Or move this file to a common location, and have separate sections for ext4
>> and xfs? This would save having scattered files for instructions.
> What is the current outook for the xfs changes landing in the next
> merge window? 

The changes have been queued, please see:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/174665351406.2683464.14829425904827876762.stg-ugh@frogsfrogsfrogs/

> I haven't been tracking the latest rounds of reviews
> for the xfs atomic writes patchset.
> 
> If the xfs atomic writes patchset aren't going to land this window,
> then we can land them as ext4 specific documentation, and when the xfs
> patches land, we can reorganize the documentation at that point.  Does
> that make sense?

So I figure that we can organise the documentation now to cover both 
ext4 and xfs.

Thanks,
John