On 07/26/2017 12:02 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question whether sparse files are supported in Cygwin. From the > source code, > it looks like they are, but from the series of the following commands, I > can't confirm:
They are, but only if you specifically update your mount options to ask for them: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table sparse - Switch on support for sparse files. This option only makes sense on NTFS and then only if you really need sparse files. Cygwin does not try to create sparse files by default for performance reasons. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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