Hi, I'm running 6.2-PRERELEASE of yesterday. While watching a process writing into a sparse file, I noticed that some- times a space appears at the left to the block count in the "ls -ls" output, and sometimes it doesn't:
Repeated execution of "ls -kls pluto.img" gives: 4880 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:47 pluto.img 7888 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:47 pluto.img 16912 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:47 pluto.img 19344 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:47 pluto.img 23488 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:47 pluto.img 27760 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:48 pluto.img 56192 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:48 pluto.img 80576 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:48 pluto.img 99552 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:49 pluto.img 103376 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:49 pluto.img 111712 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:49 pluto.img 443376 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:53 pluto.img 550720 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 6291456000 Sep 21 19:55 pluto.img Why are there sometimes spaces? Oh by the way, "dd conv=sparse" doesn't seem to work for me; it doesn't create a sparse file: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1000 conv=sparse 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 512000 bytes transferred in 0.070895 secs (7221952 bytes/sec) $ ls -kls test 528 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 512000 Sep 21 19:58 test Am I missing something, or is there a bug in dd(1)? I can create a sparse file without problems with truncate(1): $ rm test $ truncate -s 512000 test $ ls -kls test 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 512000 Sep 21 20:00 test Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"