On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:14:38PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote: > Introduce new FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate. This has the same > functionality as xfs ioctl XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE. > > It can be used to convert a range of file to zeros preferably without > issuing data IO. Blocks should be preallocated for the regions that span > holes in the file, and the entire range is preferable converted to > unwritten extents > > This can be also used to preallocate blocks past EOF in the same way as > with fallocate. Flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE which should cause the inode > size to remain the same. > > Also add appropriate tracepoints. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - Ted _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
