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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:54:00 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL(fat_get_block)
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:40:38AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:54:03AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 06:57:54AM +0800, Nelson Zhang wrote:
> > > Hi David, Greg,
> > > 
> > > What I have done so far is following:
> > > 
> > > 1. Open a file 
> > > 2. Seek to the end of file
> > 
> > That just created a "sparse file"
> 
> Not on FAT which doesn't support sparse files.

Ah, didn't realize that fat didn't support that, thanks.