Re: [bug #28779] libstore/ext2fs issue with sparse store

2010-02-05 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Fri 05 Feb 2010 22:28:00 +, a écrit : > > In fact, it is impossible to map out the blocks of > > a file hole without actually allocating the blocks, > > which defeats the purpose of the hole. Instead, I

Re: [bug #28779] libstore/ext2fs issue with sparse store

2010-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Fri 05 Feb 2010 22:28:00 +, a écrit : > In fact, it is impossible to map out the blocks of > a file hole without actually allocating the blocks, > which defeats the purpose of the hole. Instead, I > think the right solution is to simply have ext2fs's > diskfs_S_file_get

[bug #28779] libstore/ext2fs issue with sparse store

2010-02-05 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #28779 (project hurd): The situation here is that the ext2fs instance that contains blip returns a store to the new ext2fs instance that is a copy of its own store but with the blocks that contain blip mapped out. The problem is that ext2fs maps them out wrongly. First