Re: [PATCH] fallocate() for FFS

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:16:24AM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> the bigger problem is that fallocate() wants a way to record that the blocks
> are not initialized, so that reading from those offsets can return zeroes
> instead of reading the uninitialized blocks from disk, but the FFS metadata
> has no way to represent that.  we would need a change to the FFS on-disk format
> for fallocate() to be useful for FFS.

It looked too easy :-)

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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