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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] xfs: don't forbid setting dax flag on directories if device doesn't dax
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 21:25:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180604042525.GM7825@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180603234136.GX10363@dastard>

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:41:36AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 04:22:28PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> > 
> > On a directory, the DAX flag is merely a hint that files created in the
> > directory should have the DAX flag set at creation time.  We don't care
> > if the underlying device supports DAX or not because directory metadata
> > are always cached in DRAM.  We don't care if new files get the flag even
> > if the device doesn't support DAX because we always check for DAX
> > support before setting the VFS flag (S_DAX).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> Am I correct in assuming this allows directory hints to work on
> a filesystem with a DAX capable RT device, but a normal data device?

Correct.

--D

> Regardless, behaviour seems sensible to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-03 23:22 [PATCH 00/10] xfs: fix various checking problems Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-03 23:22 ` [PATCH 01/10] xfs: don't forbid setting dax flag on directories if device doesn't dax Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-03 23:41   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-04  4:25     ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2018-06-03 23:22 ` [PATCH 02/10] xfs: strengthen btree pointer checks before use Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-03 23:45   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-03 23:22 ` [PATCH 03/10] xfs: don't assert when on-disk btree pointers are garbage Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-03 23:49   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-03 23:55     ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-03 23:22 ` [PATCH 04/10] xfs: check directory bestfree information in the verifier Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04  0:10   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-04  4:23     ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-03 23:22 ` [PATCH 05/10] xfs: don't assert when reporting on-disk corruption while loading btree Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-03 23:51   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-03 23:23 ` [PATCH 06/10] xfs: remove redundant ASSERT on insufficient bestfree length in _leaf_addname Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04  0:11   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-03 23:23 ` [PATCH 07/10] xfs: xfs_alloc_get_rec should return EFSCORRUPTED for obvious bnobt corruption Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04  0:14   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-04  4:32     ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04 23:22       ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-03 23:23 ` [PATCH 08/10] xfs: btree lookup shouldn't ASSERT on empty btree nodes Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04  0:14   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-03 23:23 ` [PATCH 09/10] xfs: don't ASSERT on short form btree root pointer of zero Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04  0:15   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-03 23:23 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfs: don't return garbage buffers in xfs_da3_node_read Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04  0:18   ` Dave Chinner

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