On Mon, 2006-Jul-31 22:42:49 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >I agree with this, and while you're in there, can you add -s to copy >sparse files (via the usual "if the buffer is all nulls, seek beyond eof >instead of writing" trick)?
Note that it isn's possible to accurately distinguish between a block of NULs and a hole in the file through the filesystem. The only way to accurately copy a sparse file is with dump/restore. On Mon, 2006-Jul-31 22:37:56 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >To badly paraphase [1] a quote: "Here, have a $1, buy yourself a GB of >storage..." :) This is true in the desktop and server market but is not true in the embedded market and only marginally true for laptops. -- Peter Jeremy
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