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 trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx