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Etienne Dechamps
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This adds an interface to "punch holes" (deallocate space) in VFS files. The interface is identical to the Solaris VOP_SPACE interface. This interface is necessary for TRIM support on file vdevs. This is implemented using Linux fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE), which was introduced in 2.6.38. For a brief time before 2.6.38 this was done using the truncate_range inode operation, which was quickly deprecated. This patch only supports FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE. This adds support for the truncate_range() inode operation to VOP_SPACE() for file hole punching. This API is deprecated and removed in 3.5, so it's only useful for old kernels. On tmpfs, the truncate_range() inode operation translates to shmem_truncate_range(). Unfortunately, this function expects the end offset to be inclusive and aligned to the end of a page. If it is not, the kernel will stop with a BUG_ON(). This patch fixes the issue by adapting to the constraints set forth by shmem_truncate_range(). Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #168
The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Solaris development closely and don’t want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.
To build packages for your distribution:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin compilation:
$ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
$ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...
Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org