SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA does not work on zfs (with test case)

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 4 08:57:12 UTC 2012


on 04/04/2012 11:50 Attila Nagy said the following:
> On 04/04/12 10:38, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 04/04/2012 10:52 Attila Nagy said the following:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've started to experiment with SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA in python on a recent
>>> FreeBSD 9-STABLE/amd64 box and it quickly became evident that the program that
>>> works on Solaris doesn't work on FreeBSD.
>>> Python itself couldn't cause this, because it correctly issues the lseek, but
>>> taking the C test program from here:
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/22/79
>>> gives the same result (failure).
>> Please see this PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/164445
>> If you can't figure out a patch from its contents, then I'll try to provide it
>> some time later today.
>>
> I will try it, but the e-mail above the patch is somewhat scary...

Sorry, I could not understand what you mean.

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Andriy Gapon


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