On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 4:56 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 05:01:35PM -0800, Sarthak Kukreti wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This patch series is version 9 of the patch series to introduce > > block-level provisioning mechanism (original [1]), which is useful for > > provisioning space across thinly provisioned storage architectures (loop > > devices backed by sparse files, dm-thin devices, virtio-blk). This > > series has minimal changes over v8[2], with a couple of patches dropped > > (suggested by Dave). > > > > This patch series is rebased from the linux-dm/dm-6.5-provision-support > > [3] on to (a12deb44f973 Merge tag 'input-for-v6.7-rc0' ...). The final > > patch in the series is a blktest (suggested by Dave in 4) which was used > > to test out the provisioning flow for loop devices on sparse files on an > > ext4 filesystem. > > What happened to the XFS patch I sent to support provisioning for > fallocate() operations through XFS? > Apologies, I missed out on mentioning that the XFS patches work well with loop devices. I might have misunderstood: were those patches only for sanity testing or would you prefer that I send those out as a part of this series? I can whip up a quick v10 if so! Cheers Sarthak > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
