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Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:29:31 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: introduce per-inode DAX flag

On Wed 30-08-17 05:34:50, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:00:59PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > /dev/ram0 /mnt xfs rw,relatime,attr2,dax,inode64,noquota 0 0
> > 
> > marvin5:~/:[0]# ls /mnt/
> > fsxfile  fsxfile.fsxgood  fsxfile.fsxlog
> > 
> > marvin5:~/:[0]# ./xfsprogs-dev/io/xfs_io -c 'lsattr' /mnt/fsxfile
> > -p-------------- /mnt/fsxfile 
> > 
> > marvin5:~/:[0]# ./xfsprogs-dev/io/xfs_io -c 'chattr +x' /mnt/fsxfile
> > 
> > marvin5:~/:[0]# ./xfsprogs-dev/io/xfs_io -c 'lsattr' /mnt/fsxfile
> > -p-------------- /mnt/fsxfile 
> > 
> > No DAX flag set and no error... What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Odd.  Even on a non-DAX device the flag sticks for me:
> 
> root@...tvm:~# mount /dev/sda /mnt/
> root@...tvm:~# touch foo
> root@...tvm:~# cd /mnt/
> root@...tvm:/mnt# xfs_io -c 'chattr +x' foo
> root@...tvm:/mnt# xfs_io -c 'lsattr' foo
> --------------x- foo

OK, tracked this down. I had the XFS filesystem created so that
ip->i_d.di_version < 3 check in xfs_set_diflags() was true and so the flag
got silently ignored. I'd hope to get error in such case but whatever...

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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