(Follow) sparse file support (development)

(Follow) sparse file support (development)

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

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Hi together,
I had trouble finding a statement in the NFS wiki

    http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

about sparse file support or development plans for it outside of (very
very) technical documents which I honestly didn't take the time to
understand. Maybe I can get you to give me short statement on this :).

Best regards,
Kalle Richter


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Re: (Follow) sparse file support (development)

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

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Hi Anna,
Yes you did, thank you! I'd like to recommend you to put this
information in the wiki, if you don't want to rely on $SEARCH_ENGINE
finding this thread in the mailing list archives only :)

Best regards,
Kalle

Am 30.06.2014 01:39, schrieb Anna Schumaker:
> Hi Kalle,
> 
> Currently you can use SEEK_SET to create sparse files through seeking.  NFS
> v4.2 (currently in development) will add support for an fallocate
> interface, but that won't be merged into Linux until after the draft is
> finished.
> 
> I hope I answered your question!
> 
> Anna
> 
> On Sunday, June 29, 2014, Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter@posteo.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi together,
>> I had trouble finding a statement in the NFS wiki
>>
>>     http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> about sparse file support or development plans for it outside of (very
>> very) technical documents which I honestly didn't take the time to
>> understand. Maybe I can get you to give me short statement on this :).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Kalle Richter
>>
>>
> 


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