removing the remaining blockdev_direct_IO users
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:07:44 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-nilfs,dev.linux.lists.ocfs2-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel |
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Hi all, we have 7 users of blockdev_direct_IO and one of the lower-level __blockdev_direct_IO left, and I'd really like to get rid of them. The filesystems are affs, fat, hfs, hfsplus, jfs, nilfs2, udf and ocfs2, and you are the relevant maintainers. In 7.2 exfat converted entirely to iomap, which would be a really good example for a "simple" file system. Another options especially for the file systems supporting foreign formats would be to just drop direct I/O support and reduce the support burden.