From: Allison Henderson Subject: Re: ext2/3/4: punch support? Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:19:14 -0700 Message-ID: <4D6C57A2.3040500@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110228131118.GA18193@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Allison C Henderson , Josef Bacik , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Theodore Tso To: Dave Young Return-path: Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:38513 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755291Ab1CACTR (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:19:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Alrighty then, I can send it out a little early since people are interested. It should show up here soon. Any feedback is appreciated! :) Allison Henderson On 2/28/2011 6:32 PM, Dave Young wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Allison C Henderson wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I've actually already started on a patch set for punch hole support in ext4. >> I've sent them out on the ltc-fsdev mailing list for review. I had planned >> to spend another week or two running it through some more debug cases before >> sending it to the ext4 mailing list though. > > Where can find your patch? should be sent to linux-ext4? > >> >> linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote on 02/28/2011 06:11:18 AM: >> >>> Josef Bacik >>> Sent by: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org >>> >>> 02/28/2011 06:11 AM >>> >>> To >>> >>> Dave Young >>> >>> cc >>> >>> josef@redhat.com, Theodore Tso, linux- >>> ext4@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List >>> >>> >>> Subject >>> >>> Re: ext2/3/4: punch support? >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:03:40PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: >>>> Hi, josef and ext guys >>>> >>>> Do you have any plan with ext4 hole punching support? And the >>>> fallocate for ext2/3? >>>> >>>> What's the obstacle to work on this? could someone tell the status of >>>> this issue? >>> >>> There is no obstacle, just nobody has bothered to do it. If you want to >>> do it >>> go for it. Thanks, >>> >>> Josef >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>> More majordomo info at >> http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > >