On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:37:57AM +0000, Sidorov, Andrei wrote:
> On 24.06.2013 13:36, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > Currently, we can try implementing dave's suggesstion of introducing a
> > new flag FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for falloctae instead of individual
> > ioctls for both XFS and EXT4. Thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> Currently PUNCH_HOLE requires KEEP_SIZE to be set as well. I think there
> is no need to invent COLLAPSE_RANGE, but instead fallocate should
> support PUNCH_HOLE without KEEP_SIZE. However I'm not sure that putting
> block alignment restriction is a right way to go.
PUNCH_HOLE without KEEP_SIZE makes sense to me.
Regards,
- Zheng
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