zfs/module
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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avl Support custom build directories and move includes 2010-09-08 12:38:56 -07:00
nvpair Implement SA based xattrs 2011-11-28 15:45:51 -08:00
unicode Support custom build directories and move includes 2010-09-08 12:38:56 -07:00
zcommon Implement SA based xattrs 2011-11-28 15:45:51 -08:00
zfs Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs. 2012-02-09 16:19:38 -08:00
zpios Linux 2.6.36 compat, use fops->unlocked_ioctl() 2010-11-10 17:01:08 -08:00
.gitignore Add .gitignore files to exclude build products 2010-01-08 11:35:17 -08:00
Makefile.in Fix 'make install' overly broad 'rm' 2011-07-20 09:38:51 -07:00