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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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