GNU bug report logs - #20826
SEEK_HOLE not supported for ext4 for kernel < 3.1

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Reported by: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix <at> suse.de>

Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:40:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix <at> suse.de>
To: 20826 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20826: SEEK_HOLE not supported for ext4 for kernel < 3.1
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:50:46 +0200 (CEST)

An addendum FYI:

From our (SUSE) kernel developers I got the information that
only ext4 has this problem and that kernel git commit c334b1138bd4
(handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically in /fs/ext4/file.c)
fixes it.
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