[PATCH] xfstests 255: add a seek_data/seek_hole tester
Sunil Mushran
sunil.mushran at oracle.com
Tue Aug 30 23:43:41 CDT 2011
On 8/30/2011 8:29 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> And that's -exactly- the ambiguous, vague definition that has raised
> all these questions in the first place. I was in doubt about whether
> unwritten extents can be considered a hole, and by your definition
> that means it should be data. But Andreas seems to be in no doubt it
> should be considered a hole.
Fair enough. Let me rephrase.
Data:
A range in a file when read could return something other than nulls.
Hole:
A range in a file when read only returns nulls.
Considering preallocated extents only return null, they should
be considered holes.
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