linux-kernel - Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs-tools: do not support user-space cache

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Message-ID: <b20de8c6-5b29-10cb-257e-fc0ec7698cc5@kernel.org>
Date:   Sat, 7 Oct 2023 10:53:04 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Daeho Jeong <daeho43@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, kernel-team@...roid.com
Cc:     Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs-tools: do not support user-space cache

On 2023/9/29 1:51, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>
> 
> We don't have lots of benefits from this, since block devices already
> have page caches in the kernel. Moreover, this feature has some
> stability issues corrupting metadata. So, we better make this deprecated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>

Thanks,