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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:14:39 +0800 From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com> To: "Sidorov, Andrei" <Andrei.Sidorov@...isi.com> Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Eric Sandeen <esandeen@...hat.com>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, "tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>, "adilger.kernel@...ger.ca" <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, "a.sangwan@...sung.com" <a.sangwan@...sung.com>, Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ext4: introduce two new ioctls On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:37:57AM +0000, Sidorov, Andrei wrote: > On 24.06.2013 13:36, Namjae Jeon wrote: > > Currently, we can try implementing dave's suggesstion of introducing a > > new flag FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for falloctae instead of individual > > ioctls for both XFS and EXT4. Thanks. > > Hi, > > Currently PUNCH_HOLE requires KEEP_SIZE to be set as well. I think there > is no need to invent COLLAPSE_RANGE, but instead fallocate should > support PUNCH_HOLE without KEEP_SIZE. However I'm not sure that putting > block alignment restriction is a right way to go. PUNCH_HOLE without KEEP_SIZE makes sense to me. Regards, - Zheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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