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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/9] block: add llseek(SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA) support
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 02:26:17PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 04:39:01PM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > In the block device world there are similar concepts to holes:
> > - SCSI has Logical Block Provisioning where the "mapped" state would be
> > considered data and other states would be considered holes.
>
> But for SCSI (and ATA and NVMe) unmapped/delallocated/etc blocks do
> not have to return zeroes. They could also return some other
> initialization pattern pattern. So they are (unfortunately) not a 1:1
> mapping to holes in sparse files.

Hi Christoph,
There is a 1:1 mapping when when the Logical Block Provisioning Read
Zeroes (LBPRZ) field is set to xx1b in the Logical Block Provisioning
VPD page.

Otherwise SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA has to treat the device as filled with
data because it doesn't know where the holes are.

Stefan
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