Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: add vm_insert_mixed_mkwrite()
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2017-07-25 08:01:58
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2017-07-25 08:01:58
Also in:
linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, linux-xfs, lkml, nvdimm
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 01:14:00AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
I guess it's up to filesystem if it wants to reuse the same spot to write data or not. I think your assumptions works for ext4 and xfs. I wouldn't be that sure for btrfs or other filesystems with CoW support.
Or XFS with reflinks for that matter. Which currently can't be combined with DAX, but I had a somewhat working version a few month ago. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>