Re: [PATCH 2/2] preserve the next empty-entry hint after allocation

From: Yang Wen

Date: Sat Jun 13 2026 - 09:15:15 EST


> The empty-entry hint is only an optimization, so failure to advance
> the hint should not make file creation fail with -EIO.
> Could you make exfat_cache_next_empty_entry() return void and simply
> skip caching the hint if exfat_chain_advance() fails?
Yes, that makes sense. I will update it in v2.

Thanks for the review.