STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: We can use the following function to check if the filesystem does support sparse files:
def support_sparse_file(directory): import tempfile with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=directory) as tmpfile: # Create a file with a size of 1 byte but without content # (only zeros) with open(tmpfile.name, "wb") as f: f.truncate(1) filestat = os.stat(tmpfile.name) return (filestat.st_blocks == 0) We may skip the test if the filesystem doesn't support sparse file... But I think that it is already the purpose of the "largefile" resource. If this issue is not a bug, but just that the timeout is too low, we should use a bigger timeout on this specific buildbot. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11779> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com