Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??

From: Maciej Zenczykowski
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 16:51:45 EST


> It is, though. If you run out of space copying a file, you know it when
> you're copying. Applications don't usually expect to get out-of-space
> errors while overwriting something in the middle of a file.

What about sparse files?

> In effect, your free space and your used space add up to greater than
> the capacity of the disk. An application that checks for free space
> before doing something would be fooled into thinking there is more free
> space than there really is. How can an application find out in advance
> that a file that it's about to modify (without appending anything to the
> end) is going to need more disk space?

I don't think it can do that already now with sparse files, can it?

Cheers,
MaZe.


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