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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 00/10] fsdax,xfs: Add reflink&dedupe support for fsdax
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> Hi Shiang,
>
> Thanks for picking up this work.
>
> On 8:20 26/02, Shiyang Ruan wrote:
> > This patchset is attempt to add CoW support for fsdax, and take XFS,
> > which has both reflink and fsdax feature, as an example.
>
> How does this work for read sequence for two different files
> mapped to the same extent, both residing in DAX?
>
> If two different files read the same shared extent, which file
> would resultant page->mapping->host point to?
>
> This problem is listed as a TODO over dax_associate_entry() and is
> still not fixed.

I have posted another patchset which I called "fix dax-rmap"[1]. It is a
try to solve this problem, but still in disscussion for now.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/2/8/347

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Thanks,
Ruan Shiyang.

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> <snip>
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> --
> Goldwyn
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