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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:00:16 +0200 From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: introduce per-inode DAX flag On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 02:12:12PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 01:46:01AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Please don't do this until we have a coherent DAX plan. So far > > the flag in XFS seems like a massive mistake and we need to get > > rid of it instead of adding it to more file systems. > > Hi, pardon my ignorance, but can you point me to the discussion where > this was decided ? I must have missed it and I can't find it. > > Thanks! > -Lukas So I've read the thread where you talk about this. I do not see anything about it being a masive mistake. I only see that you're confident that's it's a wrong thing to do. Like you're ever not confident about something;) Care to elaborate on what's wrong with it and why we do not want it ? On the surface it does look like a usefull option to have. -Lukas
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