Re: [PATCH 02/63] vfs: add a FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE mode to fallocate to unshare a range of blocks

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Add a new fallocate mode flag that explicitly unshares blocks on
> filesystems that support such features.  The new flag can only
> be used with an allocate-mode fallocate call.

We will also need a manpage addition for this.  And while we're at
it an explanation of fallocate on COW files for btrfs, ocfs2 and
XFS as I don't think we are very coherent or obvious at the moment.

Well, maybe that's just future work.  For now:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
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