[dm-devel] [PATCH 01/27] target: remove an incorrect unmap zeroes data deduction

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Wed Apr 6 20:06:16 PDT 2022


Christoph,

> For block devices the target code implements UNMAP as calls to
> blkdev_issue_discard, which does not guarantee zeroing just because
> Write Zeroes is supported.
>
> Note that this does not affect the file backed path which uses
> fallocate to punch holes.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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