Re: [Libguestfs] [nbdkit PATCH 0/5] Add WRITE_ZEROES support

Richard W.M. Jones
2017-01-21T14:47:05Z

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:16:17PM -0600, Eric Blake
wrote:
> The upstream protocol recently promoted NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES from
> experimental to a documented extension. Exposing support for this
> allows plugin writers to create sparse files when driven by a
> client that knows how to use the extension; meanwhile, even if a
> plugin does not support this extension, the server benefits from
> less network traffic from the client.

Thanks - pushed the series.

Could you do a follow-up to add the .zero method to the various
language plugins?

Rich.

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