From 5cf30835c98b0b43c41680d7a5f14c85d27e5904 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Disseldorp Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:33:33 +0200 Subject: WHATSNEW: mention improved sparse file support Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher --- WHATSNEW.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'WHATSNEW.txt') diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 4150dba71fa..a056b9e8c57 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -257,6 +257,13 @@ results are more accurate than running the test with an emulator, because they reflect the exact kernel and system libraries that exist on the target. +Improved Sparse File Support +---------------------------- +Support for the FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA and FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES +SMB2 requests has been added to the smbd file server. +This allows for clients to deallocate (hole punch) regions within a +sparse file, and check which portions of a file are allocated. + ###################################################################### Changes -- cgit v1.2.1