On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:47:33AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > I'll put a significant quantity of beer on the table if anyone other > than xfstests is actually using these ioctls. In all my years of > working with XFS, I've never seen a single user of them, even on > Irix. > > The one person I know who was considering using XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP > convinced me (quite easily) to implement XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE for them > because writing all those zeros to re-initialise pre-allocated VM > images was going to be prohibitively expensive... > > Anyway, it was just a thought. Send a patch to warn on their usage, and you might be the lucky owner of a beer or two a few years down the road :) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
