On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 at 11:43, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
wrote:
>
> On Dec 1 11:12, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> > Good morning!
> >
> > Small comment about 3.5.0 commit "Cygwin: sparse support: enable
> > automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs"
> > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.
On Dec 6 09:49, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 at 11:43, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> VMware emulates NVME SSD these days, so this should work, yes?
It doesn't matter, see below.
> Primary concern is how to detect whether sparse file support is ON in
> Cygwin for a speci
On Dec 6 10:38, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> Again, the filesystem doesn't matter. It either sets the
> FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES flag or not, as simple as that.
>
> If it does, you can create sparse files with chattr +S, or you can rely
> on the lseek/ftruncate/posix_fallocate automati
I found that if I start X or an ssh agent, and then manually set the
system attribute on the socket file with something like
(cd /tmp/.X11-unix/ && attrib +s X0)
or
(cd /tmp/ssh-gjJq8mINCmz0 && attrib +s agent.3145)
then things work fine as far as X windows and ssh-agent are
concerned. That mea
Hi Corinna,
On 6/12/2023 8:38 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
If you want to see if a filesystem supports that flag, just use the
/usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo tool:
$ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo .
Device Type: 7
Characteristics: 20020
Volume Name:
Serial Num
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