From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
coreutils@gnu.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Subject: Re: Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:26:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415172603.GA20086@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA87F43.5040807@redhat.com>
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:24:19AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Would it be worth borrowing from Solaris' semantics and adding SEEK_HOLE
> and SEEK_DATA to lseek(2), as a higher level (less-detailed, but easier
> to define and easier to use) interface for discovering the regions of a
> file that only contain NUL bytes?
Yes, I've already suggested that both in this thread and on IRC.
For efficient copies it's the only usable interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-15 17:26 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20110414140222.GB1679-tLCgZGx+iJ+kxVt8IV0GqQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 14:59 ` Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?) Pádraig Brady
[not found] ` <4DA70BD3.1070409-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 15:50 ` Eric Sandeen
[not found] ` <4DA717B2.3020305-+82itfer+wXR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 15:52 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-04-14 15:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-14 16:03 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-04-14 16:14 ` Eric Sandeen
[not found] ` <20110414160343.GA12787-tLCgZGx+iJ+kxVt8IV0GqQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 16:21 ` Yongqiang Yang
[not found] ` <BANLkTimRxvBMp9M7zwiUY_UmmFOY5N58+A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 16:28 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-04-14 16:31 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-14 16:48 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-04-14 16:49 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-14 16:04 ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-14 16:10 ` Yongqiang Yang
[not found] ` <BANLkTimoLeWMJgNFGW+zdeUeJyZ-_+8fMQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-05 11:29 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-05-05 11:47 ` Yongqiang Yang
[not found] ` <4DA7182B.8050409-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 17:27 ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-14 19:13 ` Pádraig Brady
[not found] ` <878vvcspz0.fsf-CybKA8TIZ99x3y/oJEDuiw@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-14 19:39 ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-14 22:59 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-14 23:29 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-04-15 0:09 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-15 5:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-16 0:50 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-16 5:11 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-16 12:21 ` Theodore Tso
2011-04-18 0:40 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-18 2:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-19 1:58 ` Yongqiang Yang
[not found] ` <BANLkTin=WEpSf6ddiOMNMOpCPP-wiEttSw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-19 2:59 ` Ted Ts'o
[not found] ` <20110419025949.GA3030-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-19 3:05 ` Eric Sandeen
[not found] ` <4DACFBEB.9040909-+82itfer+wXR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-21 20:12 ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-19 3:30 ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-19 4:14 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 5:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-19 3:44 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 6:53 ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-19 7:45 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 8:11 ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-19 14:05 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-19 14:09 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-19 14:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-19 16:01 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-20 1:53 ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-20 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-20 17:21 ` Ted Ts'o
[not found] ` <20110419140909.GD3030-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-19 21:08 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-20 15:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-16 6:05 ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-18 0:35 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-15 8:53 ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-15 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20110415171629.GA9088-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-15 17:24 ` Eric Blake
2011-04-15 17:26 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <20110415172603.GA20086-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-15 22:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-16 0:25 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <20110414102608.GA1678-tLCgZGx+iJ+kxVt8IV0GqQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-20 14:39 ` Jim Meyering
[not found] ` <87d3khugv1.fsf-CybKA8TIZ99x3y/oJEDuiw@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-21 20:01 ` Jim Meyering
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