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From: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [fstests PATCH v4 3/4] dm-log-writes: allow DAX to be used when
 possible
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 01:28:27PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> Enhance _require_dm_target so that a user can request a minimum version of a
> given dm target.
> 
> DAX support was added to v1.1.0 of the dm-log-writes kernel module, so
> allow the DAX mount option starting with that version.

Is is possible not relying on the version numbers but actually trying
what you want to do and _notrun if that fails? Currently fstests does no
version number checking at all, and it'd be great if we keep that
tradition.

Thanks,
Eryu