Andreas Dilger wrote:
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> On May 07, 2007  13:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Final point: it's fairly disappointing that the present implementation is
>> ext4-only, and extent-only.  I do think we should be aiming at an ext4
>> bitmap-based implementation and an ext3 implementation.
> 
> Actually, this is a non-issue.  The reason that it is handled for extent-only
> is that this is the only way to allocate space in the filesystem without
> doing the explicit zeroing.  For other filesystems (including ext3 and

Precisely /how/ do you avoid the zeroing issue, for extents?

If I posix_fallocate() 20GB on ext4, it damn well better be zeroed, 
otherwise the implementation is broken.

	Jeff


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