From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966792AbXEHB0J (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 21:26:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966697AbXEHB0E (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 21:26:04 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53009 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966580AbXEHB0C (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 21:26:02 -0400 Message-ID: <463FD1A2.1020505@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 21:25:54 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , "Amit K. Arora" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, cmm@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4 References: <20070420135146.GA21352@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070420145918.GY355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070424121632.GA10136@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070426175056.GA25321@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070426181332.GD7209@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070503213133.d1559f52.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070507113753.GA5439@schatzie.adilger.int> <20070507135825.f8545a65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070507222103.GJ8181@schatzie.adilger.int> <463FB008.3080706@garzik.org> <20070508010736.GO8181@schatzie.adilger.int> In-Reply-To: <20070508010736.GO8181@schatzie.adilger.int> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Dilger wrote: > My comment was just that the extent doesn't have to be explicitly zero > filled on the disk, by virtue of the fact that the uninitialized flag > will cause reads to return zero. Agreed, thanks for the clarification. Jeff