Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] loop: Better discard support for block devices

[Martin K. Petersen]

Evan,

> If the backing device for a loop device is a block device, then mirror
> the discard properties of the underlying block device into the loop
> device. While in there, differentiate between REQ_OP_DISCARD and
> REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES, which are different for block devices, but which
> the loop device had just been lumping together.

Bubbling up the queue limits from the backing device is fine. However,
I'm not sure why you are requiring a filesystem to be on a
discard-capable device for REQ_OP_DISCARD to have an effect? Punching a
hole in a file is semantically the same as discarding.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering