On 16 June 2012 13:46, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> > > What if you cp it?
> Our version of cp doesn't support sparsing of files, but Linux's
> does: http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_cp.htm
Is this intentional that we don't support sparse files or just no one
wrote the code?
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:04:26 +0100
> Chris Rees wrote:
>
>> On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, "Xin LI" wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
>> > > On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" <
>> woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdy
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:04:26 +0100
Chris Rees wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, "Xin LI" wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> > > On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" <
> woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > file to take 900MB or..
On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, "Xin LI" wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> > On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" <
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> > wrote:
>
> file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to "punch"
> holes?
> >>>
> >>>
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, "Wojciech Puchar"
> wrote:
file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to "punch"
holes?
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like
>>> brk() works for
On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, "Wojciech Puchar"
wrote:
>>>
>>> file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to "punch"
>>> holes?
>>
>>
>> I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like
>> brk() works for memory.
>
>
>
> BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on filesys
i could write simple program to find out what blocks are unused and
then...do nothing.
Actually you can. Use dd if=infile of=outfile conv=sparse to convert a file to a
sparse file. This obviously only works on filesystems supporting sparse files,
such as UFS.
of course i can by copying. not r
On Thursday 14 June 2012 06:48:14 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >> file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to "punch"
> >> holes?
> >
> > I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like
> > brk() works for memory.
>
> BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on files
file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to "punch"
holes?
I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like
brk() works for memory.
BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on filesystem which takes 10GB but
uses 5GB.
i could write simple program to find ou
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On 05/26/12 08:06, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> is it possible. suppose i have 1GB file with my data and 100 1
> megabyte parts of it is no longer needed. i could reorganize that
> file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to "punch"
> hol
is it possible. suppose i have 1GB file with my data and 100 1 megabyte
parts of it is no longer needed. i could reorganize that file to take
900MB or... can i call some system function to "punch" holes?
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