Re: Supporting FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES in NFS4.2 with WRITE_SAME?

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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?

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
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