Re: [RFC] new ->perform_write fop

[Christoph Hellwig]

Nick, what exactly is the problem with the reserve + allocate design?

In a delalloc filesystem (which is all those that will care about high
performance large writes) the write path fundamentally consists of those
two operations.  Getting rid of the get_blocks mess and replacing it
with a dedicated operations vector will simplify things a lot.

Punching holes is a rather problematic operation, and as mentioned not
actually implemented for most filesystems - just decrementing counters
on errors increases the chances that our error handling will actually
work massively.


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