[Ocfs2-devel] ocfs2's bmap output

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Fri Oct 14 03:51:14 CDT 2005


On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:33:35AM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote:
> I'm guessing this is because of its use of extents, and probably means
> I've screwed myself in trying to use bmap in this way.  Is that a
> correct assumption?  Is there any other interface into OCFS2 to tell if
> a block is a "blank" sparse area?

	OCFS2 does not support sparse files at this time.  So you'll
never find any holes, just allocated space.

Joel

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