linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] ext4: Add multi-fsblock atomic write support with bigalloc

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Message-ID: <20250519154754.GC38098@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 11:47:54 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>,
        djwong@...nel.org, Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] ext4: Add multi-fsblock atomic write support with
 bigalloc

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 03:37:52PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> 
> So, thanks for taking care of that. After looking at Zhang's series, I
> figured, we may need EXT4_EX_CACHE flag too in
> ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_atomic()....
> 
> Other than adding the no cache flag, couple of other minor
> simplifications can be done too, I guess for e.g. simplifying the
> query_flags logic in ext4_map_query_blocks() function. 
> 
> So I am thinking maybe I will provide the above fix and few other minor
> simplfications which we could do on top of ext4's dev branch (after we
> rebased atomic write changes on top of Zhang's series). Please let me
> know if that is ok?

Sure, that would be great.   Many thanks!!

						- Ted