Hi Forrest, Can you share an updated version of your patch (with Ashish's modification if you've tried testing that)? And also can you send us some automated way to create your test case? That might make it easier for us all to test the same thing and all be on the same page. I assume you have some C program which which is doing all of the punching? I started trying to create something via a script like this: touch testfile fallocate -l 1G testfile for i in $(seq 0 8192 1073741824) ; do fallocate -p -o $i -l 4k testfile ; done .. where fallocate is from contrib/fallocate.c in the e2fsprogs sources (not the fallocate from util-linux) with the attached patch to add support for the -p option to do the pnuching.... but then I decided it might be better if we all standardized on the same test case. Ideally, if the test case is small enough, we can put it in the commit message, or at very least we should look into getting it into xfstests, and Eric has suggested. Cheers, - Ted commit 2658b9616fe63d2fd9e2654676877ab014639a92 Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 6 11:21:44 2012 -0500 contrib/fallocate: add support for punch functionality Also fix the -o option so it works correctly (instead of core dumping). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/contrib/fallocate.c b/contrib/fallocate.c index 0e8319f..1436b70 100644 --- a/contrib/fallocate.c +++ b/contrib/fallocate.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ // #include <linux/falloc.h> #define FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE 0x01 +#define FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE 0x02 /* de-allocates range */ void usage(void) { @@ -94,12 +95,17 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) int error; int tflag = 0; - while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "nl:ot")) != -1) { + while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "npl:o:t")) != -1) { switch(opt) { case 'n': /* do not change filesize */ falloc_mode = FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE; break; + case 'p': + /* punch mode */ + falloc_mode = (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | + FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE); + break; case 'l': length = cvtnum(optarg); break; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html