Re: [PATCH v11 07/21] dax,ext2: Replace XIP read and write with DAX I/O

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:50:27AM +0200, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > +			if (rw == WRITE) {
> > +				if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
> > +					retval = -EIO;
> > +					/* FIXME: fall back to buffered I/O */
> 
> Fallback on buffered I/O would void guarantee about having data stored
> into persistent memory after write returns. Not sure we actually want
> that.

Yeah, I think that comment is just stale.  I can't see a way in which
buffered I/O would succeed after DAX I/O falis.

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