Re: [PATCH v14 11/21] xfs: don't report dio_mem_align and dio_offset_align for fsverity files

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 19:43:47 +0200

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On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 10:08:01PM +0200, Andrey Albershteyn wrote:
> Sashiko.dev reported that while fsverity files falls back to the
> buffered IO for Direct I/O, they should not report non-zero values in
> dio_mem_align and dio_offset_align, meaning it's not supported.

This doesn't make much sense to me.  If we didn't want to report
we'd also want to not set STATX_DIOALIGN | STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN.
But in the end there is very little upside of this while adding
extra special cases.