Re: [PATCH] ext4: add optional rotating block allocation policy

[Theodore Tso]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 12:47:12PM +0100, Mario Lohajner wrote:
> 
> Someone comes forward with a fork, saying:
> “Here is 'my fork'. I believe it may work well for 'some dishes'.”

Give me *proof* that it works on 'some dishes' in terms of actual
perfomance, specifiying real-world workloads, and real-world devices,
and we can talk.  "I believe" is not enough for code that upstream has
to test and maintain indefinitely.  If it works for you, it's open
source.  You can run with an out-of-tree on your systems.  But if you
want us to accept it upstream, you need to provide something more than
"I believe".

Cheers,

					- Ted