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From: Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lvm volume like support
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:37:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kghl7u$fon$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FEF2721D-ABA2-4CE7-A562-6210B0946BF8@yerf-it.nl

Remco Hosman - Yerf IT wrote:

> would be really cool if a TRIM to the loopback device would do a 'hole
> punch' on the file

There are patches on the scsi target mailing list to make this happen for 
the FILEIO backend. This has the added benefit that if you set it up via 
LIO, it appears as a full SCSI device, and can be exported via iSCSI, 
firewire, FC, USB, etc as well as being visible as a local disk.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-26  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-25 23:35 lvm volume like support Suman C
2013-02-26  0:59 ` Mike Fleetwood
2013-02-26  1:46   ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2013-02-26  5:35     ` Suman C
2013-02-26  5:48       ` Remco Hosman - Yerf-IT
2013-02-26  5:57       ` Roman Mamedov
2013-02-26  6:25         ` Suman C
2013-02-26  6:28           ` Remco Hosman - Yerf IT
2013-02-26  6:37             ` Alex Elsayed [this message]
2013-02-26  7:08             ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-19 18:13           ` Andy Grover
2013-02-26 10:30     ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-02-27  2:23       ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2013-02-27  4:05         ` Roman Mamedov
2013-02-27  8:42           ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-02-27  9:17             ` Roman Mamedov
2013-02-27  8:50           ` Alex Elsayed
2013-02-27  9:57             ` Alex Elsayed
2013-02-27 10:12               ` Alex Elsayed
2013-04-08 12:01                 ` David Sterba
2013-04-11 12:29                   ` David Sterba
2013-03-02  6:24               ` Marcus Sorensen

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