Re: [PATCH v2 12/30] dax: remove block device dependencies

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Thu May 16 2019 - 10:25:44 EST


On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 05:21:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

[..]
> It just seems to me that we should stop pretending that the
> filesystem-dax facility requires block devices and try to move this
> functionality to generically use a dax device across all interfaces.

That sounds reasonable and will help with our use case where we don't
have the block device at all.

Vivek