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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:04:48 -0500 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> CC: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] libext2fs: revert "try to always use PUNCH_HOLE for unix_discard" On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 03:37:08PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> > > Revert bcca9876a3428c10417c660b78933e6e70e8a5f5, because > fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE) on block devices was changed to use zeroout > instead of discard shortly after block device fallocate was merged. > zeroout isn't necessarily a "drop storage" operation like discard is, > so we prefer to use that on block devices. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> Thanks, applied. - Ted
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