On Thu, February 7, 2008 10:15, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Le 7 févr. 08 à 02:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > >> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Thibaut Paumard wrote: >>> Zerofree finds the unallocated, non-zeroed blocks in an ext2 or ext3 >>> file-system and fills them with zeroes. This is useful if the >>> device on >> >> How does zerofree avoid race conditions of something trying to use >> a block >> it wil zero in the time window (<determine block is free>, <zero >> block>]? > > It works only on unmounted or read-only-mounted filesystems. > > Regards, Thibaut.
That sounds like something I would like to make use of. Does it handle sparse file efficiently (i.e. not writing a block if it is already zero)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
