On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:04:53AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Tue, 2006-Aug-01 12:51:32 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > >string of zeros larger than the block size, or it needs to 'do the right > >thing' and determine if it's sparse or not. > > You can do this by comparing stat.st_size with stat.st_blocks - a > sparse file will have fewer blocks than its size requires. What you > can't do is accurately determine where the holes are.
There's an extension for the seek interface in Solaris to do that. Joerg Schily discussed this with some of us BSD developers in Chemnitz/Germany earlier this year. There was someone working on porting it to FreeBSD IIRC. Joerg _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
