Re: [PATCH 3/3] ext2: remove dax EXPERIMENTAL warning
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-09-22 05:26:30
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linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-09-22 05:26:30
Also in:
linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 07:36:22PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
'still a mess' isn't all that useful for figuring out what still needs to be done and splitting up the work. Do you have items beyond my own list below? - still arguing over what exactly FALLOC_FL_ZERO_REINIT_WHATEVER_PONIES should be doing - no reflink support, encompassing: - hwpoison from mmap regions really ought to tell the fs that bad stuff happened - mm rmap can't handle more than one owner
My main really big item is that we're still mounting through a fake block device, suporting partitions and all that crap. We need to sort out the whole story of how pmem/nvdimm is actually treated, because what we have right now is not sustainable at all.