Re: Creating sparse file on XFS and EXT3 has different results

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Hole Punch.....
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:
>
> There are no "specs" as to how a sparse file is handled in response to writes.
>
> Sparse is mostly beneficial when the holes are very large.
>
> If an app really wants to have minimal on disk space, you should pre-allocate space with fallocate.
>
> 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.)
>
> Greg
>
> On Aug 4, 2011 10:16 PM, "Ashish Sangwan" <ashishsangwan2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Greg


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