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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Re: Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Re: Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:59:06 -0800
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Pavel Raiskup wrote:
So
what about special casing that filesystem, where we can lseek() for holes
anyway?

If we can lseek for holes, then why not just do that? We shouldn't need special-case code for btrfs per se. Any filesystem where we can lseek for holes should take advantage of that optimization.



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