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 |
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| 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?