SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for sparse files any takers?

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 02:38:36AM +0100, Pedro F Giffuni wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> >From http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/date/200512
> 
> "At this writing, SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA are Solaris-specific. I encourage
> (implore? beg?) other operating systems to adopt these lseek(2) extensions
> verbatim (100% tax-free) so that sparse file navigation becomes a ubiquitous
> feature that every backup and archiving program can rely on. It's long
> overdue."
> 
> It should be mentioned that linux adopted them and they would help the ZFS
> port.

I've some starting code for this and I'm planning to implement them, at
least for ZFS.

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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