Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH v2 4/4] file: Zero for block devices on old kernels
On 08/03/2018 02:28 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
fallocate(FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE) is supportd for block devices with
s/supportd/supported/
modern kernel, but when it is not, we fall back to manual zeroing.
For block device, try also to use ioctl(BLKZEROOUT) if offset and count
are aligned to block device sector size.
Here is an example run without this change on RHEL 7.5:
+++ b/plugins/file/file.c
@@ -41,14 +41,21 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
Linux-specific header; will it cause grief on BSD compilation?
(POSIX declares ioctl() in <stropts.h>, but for the obsolete STREAMS
extension that no one but Solaris ever implemented, and which no one
uses today - and thus which has little bearing on the Linux use of ioctl).
Otherwise looks okay.
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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