Re: [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2025-01-06 18:10:04
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- 2025-01-09 · Re: [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN · Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
- 2025-01-09 · [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
- 2025-01-08 · Re: [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN · "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
- 2025-01-08 · [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 09:40:07AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
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+stx_dio_offset_align +which must be provided by the file system.I can't imagine a filesystem where dio_read_offset > dio_offset makes sense, but why do we need to put that in the manpage?
Well, to be backwards compatible to older userspace the value put into stx_dio_offset_align also needs to work for reads. Given that there were questions about this in the RFC round I thought I'd mention it.