[Cluster-devel] RFC: iomap write invalidation
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Tue Jul 21 15:41:32 UTC 2020
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 08:27:54AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:14:37PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 05:06:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:04:32PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > > I thought you were going to respin this with EREMCHG changed to ENOTBLK?
> > > >
> > > > Oh, true. I'll do that ASAP.
> > >
> > > Michael, could we add this to manpages?
> >
> > Umm, no. -ENOTBLK is internal - the file systems will retry using
> > buffered I/O and the error shall never escape to userspace (or even the
> > VFS for that matter).
>
> It's worth dropping a comment somewhere that ENOTBLK is the desired
> "fall back to buffered" errcode, seeing as Dave and I missed that in
> XFS...
Sounds like a good idea, but what would a good place be?
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