Re: [PATCH][RFC] Complex filesystem operations: split and join

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Tue Jun 15 2010 - 08:01:34 EST


Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> I have no objections to such those operations (likewise make hole,
>> truncate any range, etc. etc.).
>
> As far as FAT is concerned, Sparse files would break the on-disk format?

Yes. In the case of making hole on FAT, I guess it will return the
error, or emulate it by zero fill.

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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