>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html