Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:02:58 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/9] block: add llseek(SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA) support |
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 08:31:09AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > As well as my question on whether the community would be open to > introducing new SEEK_* constants to allow orthogonality between > searching for zeroes (known to read as zero, whether or not it was > allocated) vs. sparseness (known to be unallocated, whether or not it > reads as zero), where the existing SEEK_HOLE seeks for both properties > at once.
That seems like quite an effort. Is is worth it?
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