Re: [PATCH vfs.all 22/26] block: stash a bdev_file to read/write raw blcok_device

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

> +static int __stash_bdev_file(struct block_device *bdev)

I've said that on the previous version. I think that this is really
error prone and seems overall like an unpleasant solution. I would
really like to avoid going down that route.

I think a chunk of this series is good though specicially simple
conversions of individual filesystems where file_inode() or f_mapping
makes sense. There's a few exceptions where we might be better of
replacing the current apis with something else (I think Al touched on
that somewhere further down the thread.).

I'd suggest the straightforward bd_inode removals into a separate series
that I can take.

Thanks for working on all of this. It's certainly a contentious area.