On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 8:03 PM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 12:06:01PM -0700, Russell Harmon wrote:
> > "where dm-integrity uses bitmap" becomes "where dm-integrity uses a
> > bitmap"
>
> Do you refer to one bitmap or uncountable bitmaps?
>
> I'm confused...

There is only one bitmap on-disk, written to by bitmap_flush_work [1].
In-memory there's many (it's stored as a linked list of pages), but
the docs seem to be implicitly referring to the on-disk
representation, so this would therefore be referring to a singular map
of bits, or "a bitmap."

[1]: 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c#L2876-L2877

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