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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Sai Chaitanya Mitta <mittachaitu@gmail.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Approach to quickly zeroing large XFS file (or) tool to mark XFS file extents as written
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 00:37:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z3znwD53VIBdrlbL@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250107070459.GI6174@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 11:04:59PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> I get this funny feeling that a lot of programs might like to lease
> space and get told by the kernel when someone wants/took it back.
> Swapfiles and lilo ftw.

Well, for swapfiles we can't really take them back.  Similarly the lilo
model is just broken as any chance of the mapping would actually require
re-installing the boot load in the boot block pointing to the blocks.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-07  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-23 16:42 Approach to quickly zeroing large XFS file (or) tool to mark XFS file extents as written Sai Chaitanya Mitta
2024-12-23 21:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-12-24  5:47   ` Sai Chaitanya Mitta
2025-01-06 19:46     ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-07  6:14       ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-07  7:04         ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-07  8:37           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-01-07 22:11             ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-12-24  3:42 ` Dave Chinner
2025-01-06 11:15   ` Christoph Hellwig

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