From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FC6C433DF for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9519620714 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="EQh16+tJ" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726932AbgG1BuK (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:50:10 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:59472 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726196AbgG1BuK (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:50:10 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 017BAC061794; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:50:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=sO5DBW8cKfAwrO4ChCjI6ktCdvfob49E/MQneeyqWGA=; b=EQh16+tJezpBCQzOPoGKRmK7tx rUU9S+ewLhBxfY8sfxvrACb0HgWQEPyDfriXZeY+1Qcy4tXecE1iY6bb6bP9rKhRfcA9karWizDFU X34xVM3QWYJJgdaxRjX7FiNqBbKem5a6KzCdvnt3EDLC43aUe4/uPzlusL2HHlvG7A+4sjD+ArBK9 hBhsC+AiRxftL568fyevrFOI6ONxLd//10BOX7rIcO04xzcTZpuTsfRj9Rqgx35X42iaxgXILc+Fm /TZi9plKEEjDqiXHrQYcehpFRjT7NCFWeL1PjxuyH+wPoP9Ax8AkSMVN9NZEoOMb+izFu2nk2kb05 uWWJ+D6Q==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1k0Ekh-00070f-DB; Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:50:00 +0000 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:49:59 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Kanchan Joshi , axboe@kernel.dk, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, bcrl@kvack.org, Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com, asml.silence@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Selvakumar S , Nitesh Shetty , Javier Gonzalez Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] fs: introduce FMODE_ZONE_APPEND and IOCB_ZONE_APPEND Message-ID: <20200728014959.GO23808@casper.infradead.org> References: <1595605762-17010-1-git-send-email-joshi.k@samsung.com> <1595605762-17010-2-git-send-email-joshi.k@samsung.com> <20200726151810.GA25328@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200726151810.GA25328@infradead.org> Sender: io-uring-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: io-uring@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 04:18:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Zone append is a protocol context that ha not business showing up > in a file system interface. The right interface is a generic way > to report the written offset for an append write for any kind of file. > So we should pick a better name like FMODE_REPORT_APPEND_OFFSET > (not that I particularly like that name, but it is the best I could > quickly come up with). Is it necessarily *append*? There were a spate of papers about ten years ago for APIs that were "write anywhere and I'll tell you where it ended up". So FMODE_ANONYMOUS_WRITE perhaps?