On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 09:17:40AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 12:59:31PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Christoph, can I ask what the end game looks like, here? If dax is completely > > decoupled from block devices, are there user-visible changes? > > Yes. > > > If I want to > > run fs-dax on a pmem device - what do I point mkfs at, if not a block device? > > The rough plan is to use the device dax character devices. I'll hopefully > have a draft version in the next days. /me wonders, are block devices going away? Will mkfs.xfs have to learn how to talk to certain chardevs? I guess jffs2 and others already do that kind of thing... but I suppose I can wait for the real draft to show up to ramble further. ;) --D
