From: tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6 v2] ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for
	fallocate
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:13:34 -0400
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:14:38PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Introduce new FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate. This has the same
> functionality as xfs ioctl XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE.
> 
> It can be used to convert a range of file to zeros preferably without
> issuing data IO. Blocks should be preallocated for the regions that span
> holes in the file, and the entire range is preferable converted to
> unwritten extents
> 
> This can be also used to preallocate blocks past EOF in the same way as
> with fallocate. Flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE which should cause the inode
> size to remain the same.
> 
> Also add appropriate tracepoints.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted

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