On 8/30/2011 8:29 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
And that's -exactly- the ambiguous, vague definition that has raised all these questions in the first place. I was in doubt about whether unwritten extents can be considered a hole, and by your definition that means it should be data. But Andreas seems to be in no doubt it should be considered a hole.
Fair enough. Let me rephrase. Data: A range in a file when read could return something other than nulls. Hole: A range in a file when read only returns nulls. Considering preallocated extents only return null, they should be considered holes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
