From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:31:51 -0700
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:34:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> I agree with you that continuing to touch ext2 is not a good idea, but
> I'm not yet convinced that now is the time to go do dax-2.0 when we
> haven't finished shipping dax-1.0.

I've mentioned this before, but I'd like to repeat it.  With all the
work reqwuired in the file system I would prefer to drop DAX support
in ext2 (and if people really cry for it reinstate the trivial old xip
support).