Re: SEEK_HOLE support in 1.5.a60
Joerg Schilling <[email protected]>
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Bjoern JACKE <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joerg, > > I just saw that you added support for SEEK_HOLE / SEEK_DATA of current > Solaris devel releases. XFS has such a feature, too by providing the > xfsctl(XFS_IOC_GETBMAPX). Unfortunately none of the daily used tools > support this. If you have SEEK_HOLE support for solaris in star, it > would probably be straight forward to add XFS_IOC_GETBMAPX support, > too. Star has support for a proprietary Solaris UFS interface since 10 years. I believe that in order to prevent me from being forced to implement dozens of incompatible fs specific interfaces it makes more sense if other OS would implement a unique and non FS specific interface like SEEK_HOLE. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily