[PATCH] fs: remove power of 2 and length boundary atomic write restrictions

John Garry john.g.garry at oracle.com
Tue Jan 6 01:06:20 PST 2026


On 05/01/2026 18:58, Vitaliy Filippov wrote:
> Now imagine that he sends a write but it spans multiple extents in the
> FS. And he gets EINVAL once again.
> 
> Is it any different from what I propose?

If a user follows the current rules, they will not get a write which 
spans multiple extents and hence no -EINVAL. That is how it works for 
ext4, anyway.



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