Re: [PATCH 2/4] fs: add generic UNRESVSP and ZERO_RANGE ioctl handlers

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On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 07:56:09AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> We should plan to deprecate and remove ALLOCSP/FREESP - they just
> aren't useful APIs anymore, and nobody has used them in preference
> to the RESVSP/UNRESVSP ioctls since they were introduced in ~1998
> with unwritten extents. We probably should have deprecated then 10
> years ago....

I vaguely remember an actually reported bug beeing fixed in the code
just a few years ago, which suggests actual users.  That being said
I'm all for throwing in a deprecation warnings and then see if anyone
screams.  With this series the code becomes more self-contained, and
I have another patch that moves the IOC_RESVP / fallocate implementation
over to use iomap, at which point it is entirely standalone.



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