Jim Meyering wrote: > Hugh Dickins wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Jeff Liu wrote: >> > On 07/12/2012 07:01 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: >> > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:55:34AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: >> > >> >> > >> But your vote would count for a lot more if you know of some app which >> > >> would really benefit from this functionality in tmpfs: I've heard >> > >> of none. > ... > [Jeff mentioned "cp"] > > grep is another tool that would benefit. > I often put very large files (often sparse, too) on tmpfs file systems > and would like "grep -r PAT /tmp" to work well in spite of those files. > > Please consider restoring SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA support for tmpfs. Also, lseek's SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA support is slated to be required by POSIX 2008: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=415 -- 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
