Re: Approach to quickly zeroing large XFS file (or) tool to mark XFS file extents as written

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On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 11:04:59PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> I get this funny feeling that a lot of programs might like to lease
> space and get told by the kernel when someone wants/took it back.
> Swapfiles and lilo ftw.

Well, for swapfiles we can't really take them back.  Similarly the lilo
model is just broken as any chance of the mapping would actually require
re-installing the boot load in the boot block pointing to the blocks.





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