linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] block atomic writes

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:15:22 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] block atomic writes

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 04:11:38PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> Could we just error the SETXATTR ioctl when FS_XFLAG_FORCEALIGN is not set 
> (and it is required)? The problem is that ioctl reports -EINVAL for any 
> such errors, so hard for the user to know the issue...

Sure.  Pick a good unique error code, though.