Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:49:59 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] fs: introduce FMODE_ZONE_APPEND and IOCB_ZONE_APPEND |
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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?
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