On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Jeff Moyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Jiang <[email protected]> writes: > >> The daxctl io option allows I/Os to be performed between block/file to >> and from device dax files. It also provides a way to zero a device dax >> device. >> >> i.e. daxctl io --input=/home/myfile --output=/dev/dax1.0 > > Does that really belong in daxctl?
I'm open to teaching other utilities how to do mmap based i/o, but is there any harm in carrying this dedicated utility for this purpose? Certainly the error clearing interface to send custom nvdimm ioctls is not something I expect 'cp' or 'dd' to comprehend. _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
