[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Support DAX for device-mapper dm-linear devices
Kani, Toshimitsu
toshi.kani at hpe.com
Tue Jun 14 15:53:23 UTC 2016
On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 09:50 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani at hpe.com> writes:
> > > I had dm-linear and md-raid0 support on my list of things to look at,
> > > did you have raid0 in your plans?
> >
> > Yes, I hope to extend further and raid0 is a good candidate.
>
> dm-flakey would allow more xfstests test cases to run. I'd say that's
> more important than linear or raid0. ;-)
That's an interesting one. We can emulate badblocks by failing
direct_access with -EIO, but I do not think we can emulate "drop_writes" and
"corrupt_bio_byte" features with DAX...
> Also, the next step in this work is to then decide how to determine on
> what numa node an LBA resides. We had discussed this at a prior
> plumbers conference, and I think the consensus was to use xattrs.
> Toshi, do you also plan to do that work?
No, it's not my plan at this point.
Thanks,
-Toshi
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