of an existing hole.
Chuck
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From: Bart Smaalders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:13 AM
To: Gehr, Chuck R
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparse file support in Java?
Gehr, Chuck R wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is support in Java for
Does anyone know if there is support in Java for creating holes in a
sparse file (like one can do via fcntl(F_FREESP) in C)? Would like to
avoid writing JNI code if there is already support for this somewhere in
the JDK.
Chuck
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Subject: RE: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and databases
Gehr, Chuck R writes:
> One word of caution about random writes. From my experience, they
are > not nearly as fast as sequential writes (like 10 to 20 times
slower) > un
One word of caution about random writes. From my experience, they are
not nearly as fast as sequential writes (like 10 to 20 times slower)
unless they are carefully aligned on the same boundary as the file
system record size. Otherwise, there is a heavy read penalty that you
can easily observe by
