mirror_zfs/cmd/zfs
Etienne Dechamps 30930fba21 Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs.
DISCARD (REQ_DISCARD, BLKDISCARD) is useful for thin provisioning.
It allows ZVOL clients to discard (unmap, trim) block ranges from
a ZVOL, thus optimizing disk space usage by allowing a ZVOL to
shrink instead of just grow.

We can't use zfs_space() or zfs_freesp() here, since these functions
only work on regular files, not volumes. Fortunately we can use the
low-level function dmu_free_long_range() which does exactly what we
want.

Currently the discard operation is not added to the log. That's not
a big deal since losing discard requests cannot result in data
corruption. It would however result in disk space usage higher than
it should be. Thus adding log support to zvol_discard() is probably
a good idea for a future improvement.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-09 16:19:38 -08:00
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.gitignore Add .gitignore files to exclude build products 2010-01-08 11:35:17 -08:00
Makefile.am Combine libraries: spl, avl, efi, share, unicode. 2012-01-17 15:19:50 -08:00
Makefile.in Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs. 2012-02-09 16:19:38 -08:00
zfs_iter.c Update core ZFS code from build 121 to build 141. 2010-05-28 13:45:14 -07:00
zfs_iter.h Update core ZFS code from build 121 to build 141. 2010-05-28 13:45:14 -07:00
zfs_main.c Add overlay(-O) mount option support 2012-01-12 15:49:38 -08:00
zfs_util.h Update core ZFS code from build 121 to build 141. 2010-05-28 13:45:14 -07:00