Good afternoon! Is copying sparse files broken in 3.6.0-0.362.g68c13dc92f65.x86_64?
cp --version cp (GNU coreutils) 9.5 Packaged by Cygwin (9.5-1 Checklist: - Volume has FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES - Cygwin mount has "sparse" option (mount Y: -o sparse,exec /cygdrive/y) - source file has FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE set But cp --sparse=auto ... or any other combination of --sparse does copy holes, i.e. turns 500GB of hole into 500GB of data (zero bytes). echo "hello sparse file\n" >testcase17_sparse_begins_with_data && dd if=/dev/null of=testcase17_sparse_begins_with_data oflag=append bs=1 count=1 seek=$((65536*512)) && echo "endoffile" >>testcase17_sparse_begins_with_data Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
