From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 17/22] Get rid of most mentions of XIP in ext2 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:40:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20140410184010.GC8060@quack.suse.cz> References: <0b13a744db9bfca33938bc1576f7eb7bfc9c41c2.1395591795.git.matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> <20140409100435.GJ32103@quack.suse.cz> <20140410142625.GK5727@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Kara , Matthew Wilcox , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140410142625.GK5727@linux.intel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu 10-04-14 10:26:25, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:04:35PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Sun 23-03-14 15:08:43, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > The only remaining usage is userspace's 'xip' option. > > Looks good. You can add: > > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara > > I've been thinking about this patch, and I'm not happy with it any more :-) > > I want to migrate people away from using 'xip' to 'dax' without breaking > anybody's scripts. So I'm thinking about adding a new 'dax' option and > having the 'xip' option print a warning and force-enable the 'dax' option. > That way people who might have scripts to look for 'xip' in /proc/mounts > won't break. Yeah, that sounds reasonable. Maybe we could even show only 'dax' in /proc/mounts since I somewhat doubt there are any users who care. But showing also 'xip' when used is easy enough so why not. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org