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Linux 6.18 Linear RAID "md-linear" To Support Atomic Writes


Building off the work in months prior around Device Mapper atomic write support and related infrastructure, the md-linear target for linear software RAID support will enable atomic write support with the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window.

Building off the work in months prior around Device Mapper atomic write support and related infrastructure, the md-linear target for linear software RAID support will enable atomic write support with the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window. "All the infrastructure has already been plumbed to support this for stacked devices, so just enable the request_queue limits features flag. At this stage with all of the other infrastructure complete, it's just a one-liner setting the atomic writes block feature flag for the md-linear code.

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