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Re: [Qemu-devel] DAX can not work on virtual nvdimm device
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Ross Zwisler |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] DAX can not work on virtual nvdimm device |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Sep 2016 10:34:21 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:03:27AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:19:25AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > > > > 1. make the guest kernel based on your tree, the top commit is
> > > > > > 10d7902fa0e82b (dax: unmap/truncate on device shutdown) and
> > > > > > the config file can be found in this thread.
>
> What git tree is 10d7902fa0e82b from?
It's from djbw's libnvdimm tree.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git/
I don't think that commit is relevant, though. I believe this should
reproduce with a vanilla v4.7 tree. I can verify if you'd like.
> > Hum, nothing unusual in there. I've tried reproducing on a local SLE11 SP3
> > machine (which is from about the same time) but everything works as
> > expected there. Shrug...
>
> I just tried reproducing it via "gce-xfstests --pmem-device shell"
> with a downgraded e2fsprogs to stock upstream 1.42.12, and I can't
> reproduce it with the ext4.git tree. I'm not sure whether the git
> commit is critical, though. Is this a regression that was working
> before?
I'm not sure if we've ever tested Centos6/RHEL6 with DAX. It could be that it
has never worked.
> Or it's possible that Red Hat did something weird with the CentOS 6
> e2fsprogs....