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

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On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 07:06:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > +       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?

A hole punch should be a hole punch, and not silently allocate blocks
isntead of deallocating them.  It's not even a fallback, it's pretty
much the opposite for some workloads.
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