Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA support? | From | Nicholas Miell <> | Date | Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:03:28 -0800 |
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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).
-- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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