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Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices
Date 2016-03-05 04:10 +0100
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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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[PATCH v6 0/3] fallocate for block devices to provide zero-out "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> - 2016-03-05 02:00 +0100
  [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> - 2016-03-05 02:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-03-05 04:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block  devices Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-05 22:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-03-05 04:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block  devices Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-05 22:00 +0100
  [PATCH 1/3] block: invalidate the page cache when issuing  BLKZEROOUT. "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> - 2016-03-05 02:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] block: invalidate the page cache when issuing  BLKZEROOUT. Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 08:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/3] block: require write_same and discard requests align to  logical block size "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> - 2016-03-05 02:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] block: require write_same and discard requests align  to logical block size Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-03-05 04:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] block: require write_same and discard requests align  to logical block size Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 08:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] fallocate for block devices to provide zero-out Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-03-05 04:20 +0100

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