linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/12] iomap: Introduce read

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Message-ID: <ZwCk3eROTMDsZql1@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 03:30:53 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] iomap: Introduce read_inline() function hook

On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 04:04:33PM -0400, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> Introduce read_inline() function hook for reading inline extents. This
> is performed for filesystems such as btrfs which may compress the data
> in the inline extents.

This feels like an attempt to work around "iomap doesn't support
compressed extents" by keeping the decompression in the filesystem,
instead of extending iomap to support compressed extents itself.
I'd certainly prefer iomap to support compressed extents, but maybe I'm
in a minority here.