[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 & Sparse image files?

[Sunil Mushran]

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2-new-features.html
Added in 2.6.22

It will be available for enterprise kernels with ocfs2 1.4.
1.4 has just started shipping with sles10 sp2. It will be
available for (rh)el5 u2 in a months time.

Matthew Barr wrote:
> Does ocfs2 support spare files?
>
> Specifically:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=el5dbtest3.db.img bs=1024 seek=35000000 count=0
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> on a ext3 filesystem takes almost no time at all to run, and is  
> clearly sparse.  The same command on a ocfs2 mount takes minutes, and  
> df reports the space as used.
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>
> (I'm using this with OVM Server 2.1.1)
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>
> --- I just googled the question, and it seems that it *should*  
> support  the spare file, as the patches were submitted over a  year ago.
>
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> Matthew Barr
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