Rick McNeal wrote:
Looking at the code it doesn't seem like the backing store being zeroed.
In case of regular file a single sector (512 byte) of uninitialized data from stack (bad practice ?) is written to the very end of the file. And in case

I hang my head in shame. I've fixed the code.

NB. ZFS compression will very nicely compress zeros.  I suppose one could
consider this to be sparse.  One might wish to turn compression off for
iSCSI zvols if they also don't wish a sparse-like behaviour.
 -- richard
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