On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:02 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:30:41AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance, but is there a reason why this isn't wired up to > > Btrfs at the same time? It seems weird to me that adding a feature > > btrfs doesn't support DAX. only ext2, ext4, XFS and FUSE have DAX support. > > If you think about it, btrfs and DAX are diametrically opposite things. > DAX is about giving raw access to the hardware. btrfs is about offering > extra value (RAID, checksums, ...), none of which can be done if the > filesystem isn't in the read/write path. > > That's why there's no DAX support in btrfs. If you want DAX, you have > to give up all the features you like in btrfs. So you may as well use > a different filesystem. So does that mean that DAX is incompatible with those filesystems when layered on DM (e.g. through LVM)? Also, based on what you're saying, that means that DAX'd resources would not be able to use reflinks on XFS, right? That'd put it in similar territory as swap files on Btrfs, I would think. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
