On Tue, 01 Aug 2006, Ivan Voras wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > >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. > > Hence the need for an explicit switch.
A switch doesn't help. A sparse file can contain both holes and blocks of NULs. You could, I suppose, do something like -s 100, which would seek past any block of >100 NULs. -- David Taylor _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
