Il 30/07/2012 16:03, Eric Blake ha scritto: > Ooh, nice bullet point to add to my upcoming presentation at Linux > Plumber's Conference in a month: > http://summit.linuxplumbersconf.org/lpc-2012/meeting/33/lpc2012-ref-improved-virt-disk-handling/ > > Does anyone else have some annoyances about large sparse file handling > where improving the kernel would make our life easier, that I should > incorporate into my discussion?
In case you haven't mentioned them: * lseek(SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA) support in the block layer using GET LBA STATUS. * support for connecting to an iSCSI target without scanning partitions. * support for fsync/fdatasync with ranges (or alternatively, sync_file_range that writes metadata). Paolo
