[Ocfs2-devel] ocfs2's bmap output

[Sunil Mushran]

Not high in the priority... but it's on the list.

Shaya Potter wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 23:12 -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:33:35AM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>Unfortunately, no. Since OCFS2 doesn't currently support sparse files, the
>>"holes" created are actually allocated and filled with zeros. Once
>>allocated, they'll look no different from other file data.
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>a related question then.  Is sparse file support not planned at all for
>OCFS2, or just "not currently" supported.
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>thanks.
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