From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:31:51 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dan Williams Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Ross Zwisler , Theodore Ts'o , Christoph Hellwig , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , "linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org" , Dave Chinner , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Andreas Dilger , Alexander Viro , Jan Kara , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes Message-ID: <20160910073151.GB5295@infradead.org> References: <20160823220419.11717-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> <20160823220419.11717-3-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> <20160825075728.GA11235@infradead.org> <20160826212934.GA11265@linux.intel.com> <20160829074116.GA16491@infradead.org> <20160829125741.cdnbb2uaditcmnw2@thunk.org> <20160909164808.GC18554@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:34:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > I agree with you that continuing to touch ext2 is not a good idea, but > I'm not yet convinced that now is the time to go do dax-2.0 when we > haven't finished shipping dax-1.0. I've mentioned this before, but I'd like to repeat it. With all the work reqwuired in the file system I would prefer to drop DAX support in ext2 (and if people really cry for it reinstate the trivial old xip support). -- 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