Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Mar 2016 19:06:38 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> wrote: > + /* Only punch if the device can do zeroing discard. */ > + if ((mode & FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) && > + (!blk_queue_discard(q) || !q->limits.discard_zeroes_data)) > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
I'm ok with this, but suspect that some users would prefer to just turn this into ZERO_RANGE silently.
Comments from people who would be expected to use this?
Linus
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