(triaging old bugs)
Hello,
On 17/04/11 10:28 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 04/17/11 01:55, Jim Meyering wrote:
Now that we have FIEMAP support, (by the looks of things
we will soon have SEEK_HOLE support in cp and in the linux kernel)
do you think adding support for this special case is worthwhile?
I could go either way.
If so, would you care to rebase it for 8.13?
Yes, I expect it's worthwhile, as the FIEMAP stuff isn't universal.
I'll add it to my list of thing to do. It's not high priority,
to be sure.
In the 8 years since the original thread,
cp(1) can now copy sparse files very fast (though I suspect it's still
with FIEMAP and not SEEK_DATA/HOLE).
https://bugs.gnu.org/6906
Can this be closed as out-dated?
regards,
- assaf
