Re: Sparse files in Cygwin

2017-07-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/26/2017 12:02 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question whether sparse files are supported in Cygwin. From the > source code, > it looks like they are, but from the series of the following commands, I > can't confirm: They are, but only if you specifi

Sparse files in Cygwin

2017-07-26 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hello, I have a question whether sparse files are supported in Cygwin. From the source code, it looks like they are, but from the series of the following commands, I can't confirm: $ dd bs=1 seek=1G if=/dev/null of=sparse 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes copied, 0.00392699 s, 0.0 kB/s $