Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:44:30 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Pedro F Giffuni <pfgshield-pitt@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for sparse files any takers? Message-ID: <20061114144430.GI36814@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20061108013836.77606.qmail@web32713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20061108013836.77606.qmail@web32713.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 02:38:36AM +0100, Pedro F Giffuni wrote: > Hi; > > >From http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/date/200512 > > "At this writing, SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA are Solaris-specific. I encourage > (implore? beg?) other operating systems to adopt these lseek(2) extensions > verbatim (100% tax-free) so that sparse file navigation becomes a ubiquitous > feature that every backup and archiving program can rely on. It's long > overdue." > > It should be mentioned that linux adopted them and they would help the ZFS > port. I've some starting code for this and I'm planning to implement them, at least for ZFS. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWdZOForvXbEpPzQRAtzAAJ90pB5Wtu8L0caLCbTpIH+l1TbitwCgiU9h dbbTbG025JaEHVi7ceoXZlA= =U9BA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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