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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
	ext4@vger.kernel.org, XFS Developers <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] xfs: introduce per-inode DAX enablement
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:20:06 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160129222006.GJ20456@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iXg6pD4p2MTFA3hwUc6eTK=Lpw1nDuchAs1ZQWS05MtA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 02:53:06PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 08:37:11AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > i.e. I've already got a couple of fixes we need to add to this - the
> > DAX flag is only valid on CRC enabled filesystems,
> 
> I assume for torn-write protection?  The CRC limitation makes sense,
> but we theoretically could get the same effect by using a separate
> logdev that does not tear writes, right?

No, it requires the CRC enabled format because there isn't any
flag space left in the v2 inode and so we need v3 inodes to store
the flag.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-29 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-04  5:54 [PATCH 0/3] fs: FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR promotion Dave Chinner
2016-01-04  5:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] fs: XFS_IOC_FS[SG]SETXATTR to FS_IOC_FS[SG]ETXATTR promotion Dave Chinner
2016-01-16 21:22   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-01-04  5:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: use FS_XFLAG definitions directly Dave Chinner
2016-01-16 21:22   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-01-04  5:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: introduce per-inode DAX enablement Dave Chinner
2016-01-16 21:22   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-01-21 16:37   ` Dan Williams
2016-01-21 21:58     ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-21 22:53       ` Dan Williams
2016-01-29 22:20         ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-01-22  0:45   ` Darrick J. Wong

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