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From: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/2] libaal: add device "discard" operation.
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 00:03:08 +0200
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To: Ivan Shapovalov <intelfx100@gmail.com>
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Great, thank you!

To our shame, reiser4 neither preallocates, nor punches holes.
TBH, too lazy ;) I prefer to concentrate on features, which are
either unique, or perform better in reiser4 (like discard)...

Thanks,
Edward.


On 05/08/2014 09:13 PM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
> This implements device discard functionality in libaal to be used
> by mkfs and friends.
>
> Note that the build system is _not_ regenerated, so the direct result of
> applying these patches won't build.
>
> Ivan Shapovalov (2):
>    configure.in: check for fallocate() and related headers.
>    Add aal_device_discard() function and implement it for file-based
>      device.
>
>   configure.in         |  4 +--
>   include/aal/device.h |  4 +++
>   include/aal/types.h  |  3 +++
>   src/device.c         | 15 +++++++++++
>   src/file.c           | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   5 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>