>>>>> "Ted" == Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: Ted> So I'd be in favor of adding a flag to to blkdev_issue_zeroout(), Ted> and I would have a slight preference for also modifying Ted> sb_issue_zeroout so the flag gets plumbed all the way through to Ted> the fs-level callers. OK. I'll do that, then. I always liked the flag better. I was just trying to minimize the impact. What would you prefer as the default for the ext4 use case? To allocate or to discard? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html