ext4 and XFS file systems now support DAX
Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, Direct Access (DAX) provides, as a Technology Preview,
a means for an application to directly map persistent memory into its address space.
To use DAX, a system must have some form of persistent memory available,
usually in the form of one or more Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Modules (NVDIMMs),
and a file system that supports DAX must be created on the NVDIMM(s).
Also, the file system must be mounted with the dax mount option.
Then, an mmap of a file on the dax-mounted file system results in a direct mapping of storage into the application's address space. (BZ#1274459)