Hi, As discussed in this[1] gmane thread, I'm submitting the funtionality to dig holes as part of the fallocate(1) command. When using this option, the file is searched for chunks of '\0's and digs a hole when possible. The end result should (if a hole was found) an sparse file created in-place. The patchset consist of 3 patches, the first one: [PATCH 1/3] fallocate: Clarify that space can also be deallocated is just a fix to make clear that the fallocate tool as already is, is capable of dellocations too (not only preallocations). The next 2 patches are: [PATCH 2/3] fallocate: Hide #ifdef tricks to call fallocate in a Which creates a function that has the #ifdef, that will be useful when we call fallocate from different places in the code (i.e. in the next patch) [PATCH 3/3] fallocate: Add "--dig-holes" option That just adds the option and updates the manpage. Comments and suggestions totally welcome! :) Thanks a lot, Rodrigo [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/8415 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
