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From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Nov 2019 21:25:15 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Enable per-file/directory DAX operations
To:     Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 3:47 PM Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
[..]
> No, the flag does not get turned on until we've solved the problems
> that resulted in us turning it off. We've gone over this mutliple
> times, and nobody has solved the issues that need solving - everyone
> seems to just hack around the issues rather than solving it
> properly. If we thought taking some kind of shortcut full of
> compromises and gotchas was the right solution, we would have never
> turned the flag off in the first place.

My fault. I thought the effective vs physical distinction was worth
taking an incremental step forward. Ira was continuing to look at the
a_ops issue in the meantime.