Re: [PATCH 1/3] mpage: terminate read-ahead on read error

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 06:04:23PM +0800, Chi Zhiling wrote:
> > Also, boy this is old code.  Basically akpm code from pre-git times.
> > It was quite innovative back then, but everybody who understood it has
> > since moved on,  got senile or probably died.  Oh well.
> 
> Actually, I think this patch is safe, but I'm not sure if we should fix this
> issue. After all, this code has existed for a long time, and it's quite rare
> to unplug the device during a copy operation :)

Converting exfat to use iomap would be a valuable piece of work ...