linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext2fs: don't retry discard/zeroout repeatedly

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Message-Id: <170196512708.16594.7215006522173799558.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date: Thu,  7 Dec 2023 11:05:53 -0500
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2fs: don't retry discard/zeroout repeatedly


On Tue, 09 May 2023 23:18:49 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Call safe_getenv(UNIX_IO_NOZEROOUT) once when the device is
> opened and set CHANNEL_FLAG_NOZEROOUT if present instead of
> getting uid/euid/getenv every time unix_zeroout() is called.
> 
> For unix_discard() and unix_zeroout() don't continue to call
> them if the block device doesn't support these operations.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext2fs: don't retry discard/zeroout repeatedly
      commit: cc20e3c4320ae34dd06ec4d6a71d07aa7d6599d7

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>