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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Sparseness in storage
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:23:12 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:07:23PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> are improving their sparseness handling as well, with Linux
> playing "catch up" to NTFS in this regard (e.g. the new
> FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag in fallocate() ).

FYI: XFS has supported hole punching for more than 15 years, although
the first years obviously were't on Linux.