On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-03-18 at 14:03 -0700, Rick Macklem wrote: > > > > The problem I see is that WRITE_SAME isn't defined in a way where the > > NFSv4 server can only implement zero'ng and fail the rest. > > As such. I am thinking that a new operation for NFSv4.2 that does > > writing > > of zeros might be preferable to trying to (mis)use WROTE_SAME. > > Why wouldn't you just implement DEALLOCATE? Not my area of expertise, but I believe some like to know that zeros have overwritten the data instead of the data just being unallocated (blocks still sitting around with the data in it). rick > > -- > Trond Myklebust > Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace > trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >
