Re: [PATCH v5] f2fs: introduce device aliasing file

[Daeho Jeong]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:56 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:26:26PM -0700, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> > From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> > F2FS should understand how the device aliasing file works and support
> > deleting the file after use. A device aliasing file can be created by
> > mkfs.f2fs tool and it can map the whole device with an extrent, not
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> s/extrent/extent/g
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> > using node blocks. The file space should be pinned and normally used for
> > read-only usages.
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> Is there an explanation somewhere what a 'device aliasing file' is?

Plz, refer to this patch and the description there.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git/commit/?h=dev-test&id=8cc4e257ec20bee207bb034d5ac406e1ab31eaea

Thank you,


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