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XFS With Linux 6.12 Adds New Ioctls To Exchange Contents Of Two Files
Gentoo's recommended default is XFS. It has many features that make it perfect for desktop or workstation use. Literally the only thing missing is shrinking. Shrinking is a shitload faster than backup, repartition, restore. It's a feature that it really should have. It is pretty much the only negative I can think of about it.
I understand WriteFile()/ReadFile() can do this with descriptors opened (CreateFile() ) with the FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED by specifying the offset in the (optional) OVERLAPPED structure passed as the terminal argument.
Overlapped IO all in all is funky. You can write asynchronous disk IO with it but making it *correct* (there are a lot of corner-cases to manually handle) maybe be ridiculously hard.
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