Re: [PATCH V7 9/9] Documentation/dax: Update Usage section

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:38 PM Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:19:12AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:40:46PM -0700, ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Update the Usage section to reflect the new individual dax selection
> > > functionality.
> >
> > Yum. :)
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Changes from V6:
> > >     Update to allow setting FS_XFLAG_DAX any time.
> > >     Update with list of behaviors from Darrick
> > >     20200409165927.GD6741@magnolia/">https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200409165927.GD6741@magnolia/
> > >
> > > Changes from V5:
> > >     Update to reflect the agreed upon semantics
> > >     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200405061945.GA94792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 163 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
> > > index 679729442fd2..af14c1b330a9 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
> > > @@ -17,11 +17,171 @@ For file mappings, the storage device is mapped directly into userspace.
> > >  Usage
> > >  -----
> > >
> > > -If you have a block device which supports DAX, you can make a filesystem
> > > +If you have a block device which supports DAX, you can make a file system
> > >  on it as usual.  The DAX code currently only supports files with a block
> > >  size equal to your kernel's PAGE_SIZE, so you may need to specify a block
> > > -size when creating the filesystem.  When mounting it, use the "-o dax"
> > > -option on the command line or add 'dax' to the options in /etc/fstab.
> > > +size when creating the file system.
> > > +
> > > +Currently 2 filesystems support DAX, ext4 and xfs.  Enabling DAX on them is
> > > +different at this time.
> >
> > I thought ext2 supports DAX?
>
> Not that I know of?  Does it?

Yes. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but in retrospect...

In fairness I believe this was also an olive branch to XIP users that
were transitioned to DAX, so they did not also need to transition
filesystems.