linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7] iomap: make inline data support more flexible

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Message-ID: <20210727082042.GI5047@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:20:42 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Huang Jianan <huangjianan@...o.com>,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] iomap: make inline data support more flexible

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 02:17:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Subject: iomap: Support tail packing
> 
> I can't say I like this "tail packing" language here when we have the
> perfectly fine inline wording.  Same for various comments in the actual
> code.

Yes please, don't call it tail-packing when it's an inline extent, we'll
use that for btrfs eventually and conflating the two terms has been
cofusing users. Except reiserfs, no linux filesystem does tail-packing.