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See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o , "Michael S . Tsirkin" , Bart Van Assche , Mike Snitzer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gwendal Grignou , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Christoph Hellwig , dm-devel@redhat.com, Andreas Dilger , Daniil Lunev , Stefan Hajnoczi , Paolo Bonzini , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Evan Green , Alasdair Kergon X-BeenThere: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux virtualization List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Sender: "Virtualization" On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:54:32PM -0700, Sarthak Kukreti wrote: > [ mmc0blkp1 | ext4(1) | sparse file | loop | dm-thinp | dm-thin | ext4(2) ] > > would be predicated on the guarantees of fallocate() per allocation > layer; if ext4(1) was replaced by a filesystem that did not support > fallocate(), then there would be no guarantee that a write to a file > on ext4(2) succeeds. a write or any unlimited number of writes? _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization