On 10 May 2016, at 16:46, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have an easy way to cause the kernel to request a trim > operation that large on a > 4G export? I'm not familiar enough with > EXT4 operation to know what file system operations you can run to > ultimately indirectly create a file system trim operation that large. > But maybe there is something simpler - does the kernel let you use the > fallocate(2) syscall operation with FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE or > FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE on an fd backed by an NBD device?
Not tried it, but fallocate(1) with -p ? http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/fallocate.1.html As it takes length and offset in TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB, it seems to be 64 bit aware :-) -- Alex Bligh
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