On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:46:08AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > The documentation for fallocate ought to be updated to include that as part of > guaranteeing that subsequent writes to the range won't fail due to ENOSPC, > shared blocks will be unshared. > > Incidentally, btrfs leaves shared blocks alone. OTOH, given that it's totally > COW it probably doesn't make sense to unshare blocks anyway... but maybe I > also don't want to dive into btrfs f-allocation behavior at this time. :) > > Ok, so I'll rework the XFS funshare code into something that hangs off the > regular fallocate call, and get rid of the explicit 'funshare' bits. Yes, that would be my preference. I'd also like to understand what exactly btrfs does in fallocate. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
