SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for sparse files any takers?

2006-11-07 Thread Pedro F Giffuni
Hi; >From http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/date/200512 "At this writing, SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA are Solaris-specific. I encourage (implore? beg?) other operating systems to adopt these lseek(2) extensions verbatim (100% tax-free) so that sparse file navigation becomes a ubiquitous feature that every

Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for sparse files any takers?

2006-11-14 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 02:38:36AM +0100, Pedro F Giffuni wrote: > Hi; > > >From http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/date/200512 > > "At this writing, SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA are Solaris-specific. I encourage > (implore? beg?) other operating systems to adopt these lseek(2) extensions > verbatim (100% t

Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for sparse files any takers?

2006-11-14 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: ... > > I've some starting code for this and I'm planning to implement them, at > least for ZFS. > Thanks! I recall from previous postings on this list that it's a feature desired on UFS + BSDtar too. Pedro. ___