Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA support?

[Nicholas Miell]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:56 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Aren't there already apis to query for the holes in the file, 

Yes, but they are filesystem-specific. (I think only XFS has them at
this point.)

> and doesn't tar already use them to efficiently back up sparse files?

No (at least, not in GNU tar 1.15.1).

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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