Re: [PATCH 7/7] xfs: re-enable XFS per-inode DAX

From	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 7/7] xfs: re-enable XFS per-inode DAX
Date	2017-09-26 21:10 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:36:11AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:14:04PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > Re-enable the XFS per-inode DAX flag, preventing S_DAX from changing when
> > any mappings are present.
> 
> Before we re-enable it please come up with a coherent description
> of the per-inode DAX flag that makes sense to a user.  We'll also need
> to find a good place to document it, e.g. a new ioctl_setflags man
> page.

I agree that documentation is a great place to start, if we can just agree on
what we want the functionality to be. :)

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[PATCH 0/7] re-enable XFS per-inode DAX Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2017-09-26 01:20 +0200
  [PATCH 7/7] xfs: re-enable XFS per-inode DAX Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2017-09-26 01:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 7/7] xfs: re-enable XFS per-inode DAX Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2017-09-26 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 7/7] xfs: re-enable XFS per-inode DAX Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-09-26 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 7/7] xfs: re-enable XFS per-inode DAX Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2017-09-26 21:10 +0200

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