Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:40:10 +0200 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 17/22] Get rid of most mentions of XIP in ext2 |
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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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