Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] minix: convert to iomap and add direct I/O

From: Christoph Hellwig

Date: Mon Jul 13 2026 - 05:33:47 EST


On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 01:59:04PM -0700, Jeremy Bingham wrote:
> This is version 3 of the minix iomap conversion patch series. Versions 1
> and 2 both had issues that syzbot found while testing, while Darrick J.
> Wong gave some critiques of the version 2 patches that I have addressed
> here.
>
> This patch series converts the minix filesystem module from using the
> buffer_head based path to the iomap API, and adds direct I/O support in
> the process.
>
> Patch 1 adds a new iomap_symlink_write function to

There's no point explaining each patch in the over letter, that's
what the commit log for each patch are for.

How did you test this? How do the xfstests auto group results look
with an without the series for minix?