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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Frediano.Ziglio@vodafone.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Sparse file support under windows
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:00:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44901676.1020903@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7F148C986A2A84F930FEB8C3B169EA002FBC75E@OPDMEXO01.omnitel.it>

OK for the idea, but why is a new option needed ? Sparse file usage 
should be automatic if the filesystem supports it.

Regards,

Fabrice.

ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> Hi,
>   this patch add sparse file support under Windows (supported on NTFS).
> It add a -s flag to qemu create and qemu convert. It contain also a new
> implementation for ftruncate witch not fill manually space but only use
> SetEndOfFile (so to handle correctly sparse file)
> 
> freddy77
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-14 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-05  8:32 [Qemu-devel] Sparse file support under windows ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
2006-06-14 14:00 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
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2006-06-14 14:21 ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
2006-06-14 14:50 ` Fabrice Bellard
2006-06-15  8:25 ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT

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