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The support for write intent bitmaps in files on an external files in md is a hot mess that abuses ->bmap to map file offsets into physical device objects, and also abuses buffer_heads in a creative way. Make this code optional so that MD can be built into future kernels without buffer_head support, and so that we can eventually deprecate it. Note this does not affect the internal bitmap support, which has none of the problems. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615064840.629492-11-hch@lst.de
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