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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 17/22] Get rid of most mentions of XIP in ext2
    On Thu 10-04-14 10:26:25, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:04:35PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
    > > On Sun 23-03-14 15:08:43, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    > > > The only remaining usage is userspace's 'xip' option.
    > > Looks good. You can add:
    > > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    >
    > I've been thinking about this patch, and I'm not happy with it any more :-)
    >
    > I want to migrate people away from using 'xip' to 'dax' without breaking
    > anybody's scripts. So I'm thinking about adding a new 'dax' option and
    > having the 'xip' option print a warning and force-enable the 'dax' option.
    > That way people who might have scripts to look for 'xip' in /proc/mounts
    > won't break.
    Yeah, that sounds reasonable. Maybe we could even show only 'dax' in
    /proc/mounts since I somewhat doubt there are any users who care. But
    showing also 'xip' when used is easy enough so why not.

    Honza
    --
    Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    SUSE Labs, CR


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