Re: [PATCH 0/6][RFC] Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate

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On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Dave Chinner wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:07:14 +1100
> From: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tytso@xxxxxxx, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>     xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6][RFC] Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for
>     fallocate
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:08:17PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > Introduce new FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate. This has the same
> > functionality as xfs ioctl XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE.
> > 
> > It can be used to convert a range of file to zeros preferably without
> > issuing data IO. Blocks should be preallocated for the regions that span
> > holes in the file, and the entire range is preferable converted to
> > unwritten extents - even though file system may choose to zero out the
> > extent or do whatever which will result in reading zeros from the range
> > while the range remains allocated for the file.
> > 
> > This can be also used to preallocate blocks past EOF in the same way as
> > with fallocate. Flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE which should cause the inode
> > size to remain the same.
> > 
> > You can test this feature yourself using xfstests, of fallocate(1) however
> > you'll need patches for util_linux, xfsprogs and xfstests which you
> > can find here:
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/lczerner/zero_range/
> > 
> > I'll post the patches after we agree and merge the kernel functionality.
> 
> Lukas, can you post the xfstests and xfs_io changes so that they can
> be reviewed? Once I can verify the behaviour is the same as
> XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE, I'm ahppy to commit the VFS and XFS kernel
> changes along with the xfsprogs and xfstests changes like I've just
> done for the FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE changes.
> 
> I'd like to get all the changes to the VFS into the XFS tree so that
> you can handle the ext4 integration of the two pieces of
> functionilty as you and Ted see fit....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.

Hi Dave,

ok, I'll rebase and resend the whole series with the xfstests and
xfsprogs patches as well.

Thanks!
-Lukas
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