From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Sparseness in storage
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:23:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203022312.GA8529@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D498F4B.3050207@interlog.com>
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:07:23PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> are improving their sparseness handling as well, with Linux
> playing "catch up" to NTFS in this regard (e.g. the new
> FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag in fallocate() ).
FYI: XFS has supported hole punching for more than 15 years, although
the first years obviously were't on Linux.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-02 17:07 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Sparseness in storage Douglas Gilbert
2011-02-03 2:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-02-03 14:40 ` Douglas Gilbert
2011-02-06 22:18 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-02-06 23:58 ` Richard Sharpe
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