On Fri, 4 May 2007 10:46:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Which means the right place to fix this is samba. Samba just need > to intersept lseek and pread/pwrite to never allocate sparse files > but do the right thing instead. Now what the right thing would probably > be a preallocate instead of writing zeroes, and we need to provide the > infrastructure for them to do it, which is in progress currently.
Why do preallocate and not just truncate the file? If the write is a single 0x00 somewhere beyond EOF, as appears to be the pattern, truncate will do just as well if not better. And it is available now. Jörn -- Joern's library part 6: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/feldspar.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/