[PATCH 011/145] man: document the DAX fsxattr inode flag
Darrick J. Wong
darrick.wong at oracle.com
Thu Jun 16 20:31:54 CDT 2016
Document the new inode flag in struct fsxattr for DAX.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
---
man/man3/xfsctl.3 | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man3/xfsctl.3 b/man/man3/xfsctl.3
index e84b829..9e7f138 100644
--- a/man/man3/xfsctl.3
+++ b/man/man3/xfsctl.3
@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ group and so files within different directories will not interleave
extents on disk. The reservation is only active while files are being
created and written into the directory.
.TP
+.SM "Bit 15 (0x8000) \- XFS_XFLAG_DAX"
+If the filesystem lives on directly accessible persistent memory, reads and
+writes to this file will go straight to the persistent memory, bypassing the
+page cache.
+.TP
.SM "Bit 31 (0x80000000) \- XFS_XFLAG_HASATTR"
The file has extended attributes associated with it.
.RE
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