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From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
	Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: add block-based file punching hole support
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:25:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120928142559.GB9473@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120928131215.GB13352@thunk.org>

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:12:15AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:25:39PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> > I run xfstests to do some tests, and I got an error from xfstests #
> > 255.  The failure reason is that block-based file in ext4 cannot
> > support fallocate(2) to allocate an unwritten blocks.  I am not sure
> > whether we should change # 255 in xfstests or not.  So Cc' to Dave
> > Chinner to get some feedbacks.
> 
> Zheng,
> 
> I gave these patches a quick try and I'm seeing many more failures
> than just test #255.  Tests 75, 91, 112, 215, and 263 are also
> failing, and I don't think it's all due to punch being supported w/o
> fallocate support.

Hi Ted,

Thanks for sharing this information with me.  I will look at these
patches after patch series of extent status tree gets stable and submit
to the mailing list.

Regards,
Zheng

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-28 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-23  4:25 [PATCH 0/3] ext4: punching hole improvement Zheng Liu
2012-08-23  4:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] ext4: add block-based file punching hole support Zheng Liu
2012-09-28 13:12   ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-28 14:25     ` Zheng Liu [this message]
2012-08-23  4:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] ext4: let us fully support punching hole feature in fallocate Zheng Liu
2012-08-23  4:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] ext4: add tracepoint in punching hole Zheng Liu
2013-01-17  3:38   ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-18  2:28     ` Zheng Liu

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