From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34267) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuhN8-0001wz-GL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:57:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuhN7-0006SF-LH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:57:42 -0400 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:32935) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuhN7-0006NO-FS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:57:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4E4F76FB.6020607@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:57:31 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20110814163249.14483.93520.malonedeb@gac.canonical.com> <20110816180748.17238.22695.malone@chaenomeles.canonical.com> <4E4F756C.3060907@mail.berlios.de> In-Reply-To: <4E4F756C.3060907@mail.berlios.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 826363] Re: qemu-img convert does not work with vdi files List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Bug 826363 <826363@bugs.launchpad.net> On 20.08.2011 12:50, Stefan Weil wrote: [] > Linux code also uses ftruncate to create files of a certain size. > This is not a good solution. Extract from the man page: > > "However, some non-native file systems do not permit truncate() and > ftruncate() to be used to extend a file beyond its current length: > a notable example on Linux is VFAT." Actually it works now in VFAT too. /mjt