On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:52:35AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > I don't really understand the comment. But I think you'd be much > > I don't know of a block device primitive that corresponds to the "default" > mode of fallocate, as documented in the manpage (i.e. mode == 0). I agree > that the whole thing could be simplified in the manner you point out below.
SCSI allows 'anchoring' blocks, which is pretty similar to a normal fallocate, but we don't support anchoring blocks in Linux yet.
