From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: File perforation. Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:34:44 +0000 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <22288.1042065284@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <3E1CA628.7000002@inet.com> <21551.1042063560@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3E1CA628.7000002@inet.com> To: Eli Carter List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org eli.carter@inet.com said: > Could you elaborate on the difference between what you want to do and > sparse files? No difference. Given a non-sparse file, I want a way to make it sparse. Well, I _have_ a way to make it sparse; all I have to do is write out a single log entry. What I am lacking is a way for the user to tell me to do so :) I'm aware that you can do this by deleting the file and writing out a new copy. But this is flash and it has a limited number of write cycles; I don't want to do that. -- dwmw2