Re: ext2/3/4: punch support?

From: Dave Young
Date: Mon Feb 28 2011 - 20:32:26 EST


On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Allison C Henderson <achender@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've actually already started on a patch set for punch hole support in ext4.
> ÂI've sent them out on the ltc-fsdev mailing list for review. ÂI 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/28/2011 06:11:18 AM:
>
>> Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent by: linux-ext4-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> 02/28/2011 06:11 AM
>>
>> To
>>
>> Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> cc
>>
>> josef@xxxxxxxxxx, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx>, linux-
>> ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linux Kernel Mailing List
>> <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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. ÂIf you want to
>> do it
>> go for it. ÂThanks,
>>
>> Josef
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dave
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