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The second half of the 2.6.37 merge windowThe second half of the 2.6.37 merge windowPosted Nov 2, 2010 7:37 UTC (Tue) by mokki (subscriber, #33200)In reply to: The second half of the 2.6.37 merge window by tardyp Parent article: The second half of the 2.6.37 merge window
I think so. When the virtual block device run by virtualbox/kvm detects the trim command it could punch a hole to the disk image, freeing disk space.
The xfs has an ioctl for punching holes to files. unfortunately a fallocate flag for deallocating space from 2007 has not been included in mainline.
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