That was nice one Greg!!!
I would rather try fallocate.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Apologies for the top post. I simply forgot to not do that.
On Aug 5, 2011 8:11 AM, "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> There are no "specs" as to how a sparse file is handled in response to writes.
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> Sparse is mostly beneficial when the holes are very large.
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> If an app really wants to have minimal on disk space, you should pre-allocate space with fallocate.
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> You may even need to hole punch after the writes. Both xfs and ext4 support both fallocate and hole punching. (I don't know the userspace call to hole punch. I think its a relatively new feature for ext4.)
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> Greg
>
> On Aug 4, 2011 10:16 PM, "Ashish Sangwan" <ashishsangwan2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Greg
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