Issues with FIEMAP, xfstests, Samba, ksmbd and CIFS
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Dec 6 12:38:29 UTC 2023
David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
> So:
>
> - Should Samba and ksmbd be using FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE rather than
> PUNCH_HOLE?
>
> - Should Samba and ksmbd be using FIEMAP rather than SEEK_DATA/HOLE?
- Should Samba and ksmbd report 'unwritten' extents as being allocated?
> - Should xfstests be less exacting in its FIEMAP analysis - or should this be
> skipped for cifs? I don't want to skip generic/009 as it checks some
> corner cases that need testing, but it may not be possible to make the
> exact extent matching work.
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