On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 07:06:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > + if ((mode & FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) && > > + (!blk_queue_discard(q) || !q->limits.discard_zeroes_data)) > > + return -EOPNOTSUPP; > > I'm ok with this, but suspect that some users would prefer to just > turn this into ZERO_RANGE silently. > > Comments from people who would be expected to use this? A hole punch should be a hole punch, and not silently allocate blocks isntead of deallocating them. It's not even a fallback, it's pretty much the opposite for some workloads. -- 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
