Fwd: DELETE support in the VOP_STRATEGY(9)?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > But the filesystem does not know whether the underlying storage is
> > electromechanical or solid-state, nor does it know whether the user
> > cares much about seek times (unless we introduce the heuristic
> > "avoid creating holes unless the file already has them, in which
> > case the userland probably does not care").
> Actually, the filesystem does know. Or has some knowledge of what
> is supported and what isn't. BIO_DELETE support is a strong indicator
> of a flash or other log-type system.

The filesystem can ask the layer below if BIO_DELETE is supported, but
should not assume anything about what it means.  For instance, I could
write a gnop-like module that translates BIO_DELETE into an all-zeroes
BIO_WRITE and passes everything else unmodified.  It would provide a
stronger guarantee than, say, SATA TRIM but would also have a completely
different performance profile (even on SSDs, since it would do its work
synchronously whereas TRIM works asynchronously).

Anyway, my point is that Maxim needs to revise his assumptions.

DES
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