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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:54:54 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
shane.seymour@....com, Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: create ioctl to discard-or-zeroout a range of blocks
>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> writes:
Christoph> - FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE assures zeroes are returned, but
Christoph> space is deallocated as much as possible -
Christoph> FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE assures zeroes are returned, AND blocks
Christoph> are actually allocated
That works for me. I think it would be great if we could have consistent
interfaces for fs and block. The more commonality the merrier.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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