Re: Question about which types of dm need to support DAX

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"Yang, Xiao/杨 晓" <yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Ross, Toshi, Jeff and others
>
> After reading the kernel patches[1][2][3] about dm, I think only three
> types(linear, stripe and log-writes) of dm can support DAX now, right?

Right.

> I wonder why only three types of dm need to support DAX? Is there any
> reason/history and use case?

It was easy to add DAX support to those targets.  Note that if a target
needs to intercept I/O, then it is fundamentally incompatible with DAX.

Cheers,
Jeff
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