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From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
To: "Sidorov, Andrei" <Andrei.Sidorov@arrisi.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	"tytso@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"adilger.kernel@dilger.ca" <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	"a.sangwan@samsung.com" <a.sangwan@samsung.com>,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ext4: introduce two new ioctls
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:14:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130624141439.GA8275@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0F0BC787567C848B2C90989451123DA2363CDB7@ATLEXMBX4.ARRS.ARRISI.com>

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:37:57AM +0000, Sidorov, Andrei wrote:
> On 24.06.2013 13:36, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > Currently, we can try implementing dave's suggesstion of introducing a
> > new flag FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for falloctae instead of individual
> > ioctls for both XFS and EXT4. Thanks.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Currently PUNCH_HOLE requires KEEP_SIZE to be set as well. I think there
> is no need to invent COLLAPSE_RANGE, but instead fallocate should
> support PUNCH_HOLE without KEEP_SIZE. However I'm not sure that putting
> block alignment restriction is a right way to go.

PUNCH_HOLE without KEEP_SIZE makes sense to me.

Regards,
                                                - Zheng

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-24 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-23  6:07 [PATCH 0/3] ext4: introduce two new ioctls Namjae Jeon
2013-06-23  6:22 ` Namjae Jeon
2013-06-23 17:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-06-24  0:32   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-24  2:44     ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-24  3:12       ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-06-24  8:08         ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-24  7:06       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-06-24  9:35         ` Namjae Jeon
2013-06-24 10:37           ` Sidorov, Andrei
2013-06-24 14:14             ` Zheng Liu [this message]
2013-06-24 21:29             ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-24  6:48   ` Namjae Jeon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-06-23  6:05 Namjae Jeon

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