Re: [PATCH 8/8] xfs: add initial DAX support

Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-25T09:14:26Z

On 03/24/2015 11:25 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
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> No, I don't see any reason for a mount flag for this, because we
> do not want to be stuck relying on a mount option forever. Once
> This code has been shaken out, I fully intend DAX to be turned on
> automatically for any device that supports, and for it to be turned
> on and off on a per-inode basis through on-disk inode flags. i.e.
> the mount option is really a temporary solution and I don't want to
> code in any dependencies on DAX being mount wide existing.
>

OK I dropped this flag. I will just check for the direct_access
vector. I'll need a wrapper that defines to nothing in the
!CONFIG_FS_DAX case

> Cheers,
> Dave.
>

Thanks for your help
Boaz