Peter Vrabec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> extracting a sparse file to a filesystem like vfat that does not
> support sparse files results in an incomplete output file.

Thanks for reporting.

> What do you think about attached patch?

I think that, while the issue should certainly be solved, the patch
addresses it the wrong way. It should be the responsibility of
sys_truncate to handle this case.

Regards,
Sergey


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