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Re: [Nbd] TRIM stuff



On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:26:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So yesterday I implemented the fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) stuff for
> NBD_CMD_TRIM. It's compile-tested, but not yet functionally tested. To
> be honest, I'm not entirely sure how to test whether a file is sparse in
> a particular region; anyone?
> 
> Anyway, reviews on that short piece of code are obviously welcome.

After looking at it myself, I already find two issues:
- Need to deal with copy-on-write
- Need to have better error handling. Scratch that, make that "need to
  have error handling", period.

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