Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] fs: report direct io constraints through file_getattr
Keith Busch via Linux-f2fs-devel <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:11:23 -0600
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 05:20:58PM -0400, Eric Biggers wrote: > So far I haven't seen the point. Yes, applications can benefit from the > lower alignment in theory. But especially with encryption/decryption, > it isn't at all easy to support. This has apparently been getting > learned the hard way, as (for example) alignment was initially relaxed > for dm-crypt without testing it, and it had to be reverted > (https://lore.kernel.org/dm-devel/[email protected]/). To be fair, that was most certainly tested in production, and it was reverted for a bug not related to alignment. It was just a mishandled early exit corner case accessing uninitialized fields; a trivial fixup. _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel