Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 May 2023 12:52:16 -0400 | From | Mike Snitzer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] block: Introduce provisioning primitives |
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On Sat, May 06 2023 at 2:29P -0400, Sarthak Kukreti <sarthakkukreti@chromium.org> wrote:
> Introduce block request REQ_OP_PROVISION. The intent of this request > is to request underlying storage to preallocate disk space for the given > block range. Block devices that support this capability will export > a provision limit within their request queues. > > This patch also adds the capability to call fallocate() in mode 0 > on block devices, which will send REQ_OP_PROVISION to the block > device for the specified range, > > Signed-off-by: Sarthak Kukreti <sarthakkukreti@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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