On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 06:28:17PM -0700, Sarthak Kukreti wrote:
> Allow REQ_OP_PROVISION to pass in an extra REQ_UNSHARE bit to
> annotate unshare requests to underlying layers. Layers that support
> FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE will be able to use this as an indicator of which
> fallocate() mode to use.
>
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 06:28:15PM -0700, Sarthak Kukreti wrote:
> Add support for provision requests to loopback devices.
> Loop devices will configure provision support based on
> whether the underlying block device/file can support
> the provision request and upon receiving a provision bio,
>
From: Dave Chinner
Block device provisioning detection infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
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fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 2 ++
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h | 1 +
fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 11 ++-
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 4
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git
From: Dave Chinner
Provision space in the block device for preallocated file space when
userspace asks for it. Make sure to do this outside of transaction
context so it can fail without causing a filesystem shutdown.
XXX: async provisioning submission/completion interface would be
really useful
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 06:28:12PM -0700, Sarthak Kukreti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch series is version 8 of the patch series to introduce
> block-level provisioning mechanism (original [1]), which is useful for
> provisioning
> space across thinly provisioned storage architectures (loop devices
