On 7/16/21 8:51 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 08:40:29AM +0800, Liu Bo wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 05:30:31PM +0800, Jeffle Xu wrote: >>> Add one flag for fuse_attr.flags indicating if DAX shall be enabled for >>> this file. >>> >>> When the per-file DAX flag changes for an *opened* file, the state of >>> the file won't be updated until this file is closed and reopened later. >>> >>> Currently it is not implemented yet to change per-file DAX flag inside >>> guest kernel, e.g., by chattr(1). >> >> Thanks for the patch, it looks good to me. >> >> I think it's a good starting point, what I'd like to discuss here is >> whether we're going to let chattr to toggle the dax flag. > > I have the same question. Why not take chattr approach as taken > by ext4/xfs as well. > > Vivek Thanks. We can implement the chattr approach as ext4/xfs do, if we have this use scenario. It's an RFC patch, and I want to collect more feedback as soon as possible. -- Thanks, Jeffle _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
