Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: create ioctl to discard-or-zeroout a range of blocks | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:54:54 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.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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