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| From | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices |
| Date | 2016-03-21 19:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <rfcAN-Zv-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:52:35AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > I don't really understand the comment. But I think you'd be much > > I don't know of a block device primitive that corresponds to the "default" > mode of fallocate, as documented in the manpage (i.e. mode == 0). I agree > that the whole thing could be simplified in the manner you point out below. SCSI allows 'anchoring' blocks, which is pretty similar to a normal fallocate, but we don't support anchoring blocks in Linux yet.
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Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-21 16:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> - 2016-03-21 19:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-21 19:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-03-21 19:30 +0100
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