On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 10:05:11AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Hi Christoph! > > > Who sais it it not backed by a file? Which that would be a very > > unusual use case, there is nothing limiting us from using integity or > > metadata from a file mapping. Instead we'll need to do the same thing > > for the data path and defer the unmapping to a user context when > > needed. > > If you have a use case for file-backed then supporting deferred dirtying > is perfectly fine with me. I do not personally have a use case. But we support using file backed memory right now and have since adding these user interfaces. Suddenly removing the dirtying will cause silent data corruptions for these use cases if they exist, which is not a good change.
