On 23 Apr 2016, at 00:40, Eric Blake wrote:
> Upstream NBD protocol recently added the ability to efficiently
> write zeroes without having to send the zeroes over the wire,
> along with a flag to control whether the client wants a hole.
>
> The generic block code takes care of falling back to
Upstream NBD protocol recently added the ability to efficiently
write zeroes without having to send the zeroes over the wire,
along with a flag to control whether the client wants a hole.
The generic block code takes care of falling back to the obvious
write of lots of zeroes if we return -ENOTSUP
