Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] The end of the DAX experiment

2019-02-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 12:29 PM Ric Wheeler wrote: > > On 2/6/19 4:12 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > Before people get too excited this isn't a proposal to kill DAX. The > > topic proposal is a discussion to resolve lingering open questions > > that currently motivate ext4 and xfs to scream "EXPERIM

Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] The end of the DAX experiment

2019-02-17 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 2/6/19 4:12 PM, Dan Williams wrote: Before people get too excited this isn't a proposal to kill DAX. The topic proposal is a discussion to resolve lingering open questions that currently motivate ext4 and xfs to scream "EXPERIMENTAL" when the current DAX facilities are enabled. The are 2 prima

Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] The end of the DAX experiment

2019-02-08 Thread Johannes Thumshirn
On 07/02/2019 22:51, Kani, Toshi wrote: > I've also had multiple users complained about 'mount -o dax' succeeded > by falling back to non-dax despite of their intent. Such users wasted > many hours without knowing their setup error / current restrictions. > The next think they always ask is how to

Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] The end of the DAX experiment

2019-02-07 Thread Kani, Toshi
On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 13:12 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > Before people get too excited this isn't a proposal to kill DAX. The > topic proposal is a discussion to resolve lingering open questions > that currently motivate ext4 and xfs to scream "EXPERIMENTAL" when the > current DAX facilities are en