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Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 10:41:31 -0400
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Sarthak Kukreti <sarthakkukreti@...omium.org>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Introduce provisioning primitives
On Fri, May 19 2023 at 12:09P -0400,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> FYI, I really don't think this primitive is a good idea. In the
> concept of non-overwritable storage (NAND, SMR drives) the entire
> concept of a one-shoot 'provisioning' that will guarantee later writes
> are always possible is simply bogus.
Valid point for sure, such storage shouldn't advertise support (and
will return -EOPNOTSUPP).
But the primitive still has utility for other classes of storage.
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