I had a need to split a file into smaller files on a thumb drive with no
free space on it or anywhere else in the system. When the filesystem
supports sparse files(truncate_range), I could create files, while
punching holes in the original file. But when the underlying fs is FAT,
I couldn't. Also
Nikanth Karthikesan writes:
> I had a need to split a file into smaller files on a thumb drive with no
> free space on it or anywhere else in the system. When the filesystem
> supports sparse files(truncate_range), I could create files, while
> punching holes in the original file. But when the un
Hi OGAWA Hirofumi
Thanks a lot for looking at this and reply.
On Sunday 13 June 2010 17:12:57 OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Nikanth Karthikesan writes:
> > I had a need to split a file into smaller files on a thumb drive with no
> > free space on it or anywhere else in the system. When the filesystem
Nikanth Karthikesan writes:
>> I have no objections to such those operations (likewise make hole,
>> truncate any range, etc. etc.).
>
> As far as FAT is concerned, Sparse files would break the on-disk format?
Yes. In the case of making hole on FAT, I guess it will return the
error, or emulate i
On 15/06/10 11:41, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> I had a one-off use-case, where I had no free-space, which made me
> think along this line.
>
> 1. We have the GNU split tool for example, which I guess, many of us
> use to split larger files to be transfered via smaller thumb drives,
> for example.
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 17:16:06 David Pottage wrote:
> On 15/06/10 11:41, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > I had a one-off use-case, where I had no free-space, which made me
> > think along this line.
> >
> > 1. We have the GNU split tool for example, which I guess, many of us
> > use to split larg
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:16:06 +0100, "David Pottage"
wrote:
> On the other hand, perhaps databases such as SQLite or MySQL would
> benifit from this feature for improving their backend storage, especaly
> if large amounts of BLOB data is inserted or deleted?
unlikely.
1) these operations aren't
