Thread (42 messages) 42 messages, 7 authors, 2023-06-16

Re: [PATCH 11/11] md: deprecate bitmap file support

From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Date: 2023-06-15 08:38:26
Also in: linux-block, linux-fsdevel

On 6/15/23 08:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
The support for bitmaps on files is a very bad idea abusing various kernel
APIs, and fundamentally requires the file to not be on the actual array
without a way to check that this is actually the case.  Add a deprecation
warning to see if we might be able to eventually drop it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
  drivers/md/Kconfig | 2 +-
  drivers/md/md.c    | 2 ++
  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes

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