From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:40906 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752247AbdHPPSE (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:18:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:18:03 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Lukas Czerner Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, martin.petersen@oracle.com, hch@lst.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: reintroduce discard_zeroes_data sysfs file and BLKDISCARDZEROES Message-ID: <20170816151803.GB18932@lst.de> References: <1502889581-19483-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1502889581-19483-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch is incorrect - just because we support zeroing using write zero doesn't mean that any discard will zero the data. This subtle difference was one of the main point for the changes.