On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:01:57AM -0800, 'Ira Weiny' wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 02:49:48PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > [snip] > > Given that we document the dax mount > > option as "the way to get dax," it may be a good idea to allow for a > > user to selectively disable dax, even when -o dax is specified. Is that > > possible? > > Not with this patch set. And I'm not sure how that would work. The idea was > that -o dax was simply an override for users who were used to having their > entire FS be dax. We wanted to depreciate the use of "-o dax" in general. The > individual settings are saved so I don't think it makes sense to ignore the -o > dax in favor of those settings. Basically that would IMO make the -o dax > useless. Oh and I forgot to mention that setting 'dax' on the root of the FS basically provides '-o dax' functionality by default with the ability to "turn it off" for files. Ira > > Ira >
