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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/54] libext2fs: zero blocks via FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE in
 ext2fs_zero_blocks
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:46:11 -0400
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:37:50PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Plumb a new call into the IO manager to support translating
> ext2fs_zero_blocks calls into the equivalent FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
> fallocate flag primitive when possible.  This patch provides _only_
> support for file-based images.
> 
> v2: Remove zero-out for block devices until BLKZEROOUT is cleaned up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted