https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11588
--- Comment #21 from Andrey Gursky <andrey.gur...@e-mail.ua> --- (In reply to Andrey Gursky from comment #20) Sorry, it is indeed preallocated. Other still holds: hole-punch doesn't fail because the file already consists of only hole. Such file I would call a preallocated data-sparse. In opposite to the usual not preallocated space-sparse with truncate: $ truncate -s 1048576 test-sparse $ ls -ls test-sparse 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 andrey andrey 1048576 Oct 9 15:34 test-sparse $ /usr/sbin/filefrag -v test-sparse Filesystem type is: ef53 File size of test-sparse is 1048576 (256 blocks of 4096 bytes) test-sparse: 0 extents found -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html