If ftruncate64() exists, try to use it to set i_size. This isn't
guaranteed to work, per SuSv3, but if it doesn't work, it's guaranteed
to return an error. So for file systems and/or operating systems that
don't support extending i_size via ftruncate64(), fall back to writing
the trailing null.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
---
Oops, sent the wrong version of the patch. My bad.
misc/e2image.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/misc/e2image.c b/misc/e2image.c
index 3cb92fe..93359cf 100644
--- a/misc/e2image.c
+++ b/misc/e2image.c
@@ -510,8 +510,19 @@ static void output_meta_data_blocks(ext2_filsys fs, int fd)
}
}
}
+#ifdef HAVE_FTRUNCATE64
+ if (sparse) {
+ ext2_loff_t offset = ext2fs_llseek(fd, sparse, SEEK_CUR);
+
+ if (offset < 0)
+ lseek_error_and_exit(errno);
+ if (ftruncate64(fd, offset) < 0)
+ write_block(fd, zero_buf, -1, 1, -1);
+ }
+#else
if (sparse)
write_block(fd, zero_buf, sparse-1, 1, -1);
+#endif
ext2fs_free_mem(&zero_buf);
ext2fs_free_mem(&buf);
}
--
1.7.9.107.g97f9a
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