From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 07 May 2007 18:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dvmed.net (srv5.dvmed.net [207.36.208.214]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l481Q5fB030567 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 18:26:06 -0700 Message-ID: <463FD1A2.1020505@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 21:25:54 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4 References: <20070420135146.GA21352@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070420145918.GY355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070424121632.GA10136@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070426175056.GA25321@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070426181332.GD7209@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070503213133.d1559f52.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070507113753.GA5439@schatzie.adilger.int> <20070507135825.f8545a65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070507222103.GJ8181@schatzie.adilger.int> <463FB008.3080706@garzik.org> <20070508010736.GO8181@schatzie.adilger.int> In-Reply-To: <20070508010736.GO8181@schatzie.adilger.int> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , "Amit K. Arora" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, cmm@us.ibm.com Andreas Dilger wrote: > My comment was just that the extent doesn't have to be explicitly zero > filled on the disk, by virtue of the fact that the uninitialized flag > will cause reads to return zero. Agreed, thanks for the clarification. Jeff