Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [v12 1/2] fs: New zonefs file system | From | Markus Elfring <> | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 2020 08:18:09 +0100 |
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> > Hmmm. I'm wondering if it would be better to return -EOPNOTSUPP here > > so that the application knows it can't do non-blocking write AIO to > > this file. > > I wondered the same too. In the end, I decided to go with silently ignoring > the flag (for now) since raw block device accesses do the same (the NOWAIT > support is not complete and IOs may wait on free tags). I have an idea for > fixing simply the out-of-order issuing that may result from using nowait.
I find this aspect interesting for further clarification.
> I will send a patch for that later and can then remove this.
Should another software improvement be integrated into the initial proposal?
Regards, Markus
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