On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 08:56:56AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 04:36:03PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote: > > This patch adds support to perform single block RWF_ATOMIC writes for > > iomap xfs buffered IO. This builds upon the inital RFC shared by John > > Garry last year [1]. Most of the details are present in the respective > > commit messages but I'd mention some of the design points below: > > What is the use case for this functionality? i.e. what is the > reason for adding all this complexity?
Seconded. The atomic code has a lot of complexity, and further mixing it with buffered I/O makes this even worse. We'd need a really important use case to even consider it.
