[PATCH v7] iomap: make inline data support more flexible

David Sterba dsterba at suse.cz
Tue Jul 27 18:20:42 AEST 2021


On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 02:17:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Subject: iomap: Support tail packing
> 
> I can't say I like this "tail packing" language here when we have the
> perfectly fine inline wording.  Same for various comments in the actual
> code.

Yes please, don't call it tail-packing when it's an inline extent, we'll
use that for btrfs eventually and conflating the two terms has been
cofusing users. Except reiserfs, no linux filesystem does tail-packing.


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