On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 10:16:09PM +0200, Gero Treuner wrote:
> I discovered that making a file sparse with "fallocate -d filename"
> fails on the last block of a file, because - usually being partial - the
> system call only zeroes that part instead of deallocating the block. See
> man fallocate(2) - section "Deallocating file space".
>
> The expected call is punching the whole block beyond eof, which doesn't
> change the file length because of flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE.
Good catch. Applied, thanks.
(Please, use Signed-off-by: line in your commit message next time.)
Karel
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