Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:14:30 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Tristate moount option comatibility fixup |
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 08:10:07PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Hello, > > after the tristate dax option change some applications fail to detect > pmem devices because the dax option no longer shows in mtab when device > is mounted with -o dax.
Which applications? Name them.
We *really* don't want to encourage applications to make decisions only based on the mount options. For example, it could be that the application's files will have the S_DAX flag set.
It would be a real shame if we are actively encourage applications to use a broken configuration mechanism which was only used as a hack while DAX was in experimental status.
- Ted
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