https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11588
--- Comment #23 from Wayne Davison ---
> Continuing to think aloud. It's not really a hole, it's already reserved
> space.
Exactly, and it's impossible to punch holes in that allocation. I'm changing my
patch to give the file a size to deal with
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11588
--- Comment #22 from Andrey Gursky ---
(In reply to Andrey Gursky from comment #21)
Continuing to think aloud. It's not really a hole, it's already reserved space.
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--- Comment #21 from Andrey Gursky ---
(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
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--- Comment #20 from Andrey Gursky ---
(In reply to Wayne Davison from comment #17)
From what I see, it doesn't fail, since the file is not preallocated at all
with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, but just a fully sparse file is created (consisting
of only o
