Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] xfs: add support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:00:16 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-api,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-xfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 11:44:47AM +0200, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> > Maybe we also want xfstests that try unaligned FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES
> > and make sure no existing data before the range is lost and the
> > entire range is zeroed?
> > 
> 
> I added FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES support to ltp (both fsx and fsstress).
> For example, generic/363 tests for unaligned writes and checks for any
> stale data. By default, I think we do unaligned reads, writes and
> truncate in fsx.

But I guess not unaligned FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES?