On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 3:34 PM Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello! > > Is it possible to detect sparse files on a NFSV4.2 filesystem by just > using ls -l -s, or other options of ls(1) or find(1)? Maybe for file systems that do not do compression. However, there is no way for an NFS client to know if a file system is doing compression. At least that is my opinion, rick > > The goal is to find sparse files without opening each file. > > Dan > -- > Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd >