Re: [PATCH v4] fuse: Allow fallocate(FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE)
From: Richard W.M. Jones
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 06:34:07 EST
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 03:56:25PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 18:19, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The current fuse module filters out fallocate(FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE)
> > returning -EOPNOTSUPP. libnbd's nbdfuse would like to translate
> > FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE requests into the NBD command
> > NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES which allows NBD servers that support it to do
> > zeroing efficiently.
> >
> > This commit treats this flag exactly like FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE.
>
> Thanks, applied.
Hi Miklos, did this patch get forgotten?
Rich.
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