> >First of all, I found out that the "create_missing_block" function
> >doesn't seem to work, at least it didn't work on my system.
> >(If you tried to create a file system with 1024 blocks (1meg) on
> > a file which was only 1 Byte long it didn't work...)
>
> That is because it is not supposed to extend the file length, but
> to fill in holes in the file (unallocated blocks in the middle of a
> file)
>
> I don't think the loop device should try to extend the file, a block
> device with varying length does not look like a good idea for me.
Ahh, so I misunderstood the comment, because I didn't know that
this would be possible (that a backing file containged blocks
which are not mapped to the block device). Just out of interest,
how can such a situation happen ?
(Do you open a file and then write to position 100000 for example? )
so long
Ingo
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