linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] xfs: single block atomic writes for buffered IO

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Message-ID: <aRcsFF5eCCsx5kYh@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:18:12 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, djwong@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] xfs: single block atomic writes for buffered IO

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.