Punching holes into (sparse) files - porting Solaris
fcntl(F_FREESP) to FreeBSD?
Attila Nagy
bra at fsn.hu
Fri Mar 4 21:12:52 UTC 2011
On 03/04/2011 05:39 PM, Adam Vande More wrote:
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> Is it possible to make regions of files, with already written data
> sparse? (I'm interested to do this on ZFS)
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> Well thereis sysutils/phantom
Thanks, but I don't want to rewrite the file. I thought that this is
obvious from the other part of the e-mail, sorry.
So I would like to make existing, non-sparse regions sparse, without
rewriting the file. This is what F_FREESP is for.
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