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Re: cp command - problem with sparse
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: cp command - problem with sparse |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:30:55 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> According to the cygwin mailing list,
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00013.html, cygwin already
> supports sparse files when you do lseek beyond EOF during writes. The
> trick, however, is that NTFS on Windows XP does not create a hole until 128k.
>
> Therefore, this patch is needed in the testsuite to turn a SKIP into a
> PASS on cygwin:
>
> 2005-02-01 Eric Blake <address@hidden> (tiny change)
>
> * tests/du/8gb: Detect sparse files on NTFS under cygwin.
Thanks.
I've applied that.
- cp command - problem with sparse, RE, 2005/02/01
- Re: cp command - problem with sparse, James Youngman, 2005/02/01
- Re: cp command - problem with sparse, Eric Blake, 2005/02/02
- Re: cp command - problem with sparse,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: cp command - problem with sparse, Andreas Schwab, 2005/02/02
- Re: cp command - problem with sparse, Jim Meyering, 2005/02/02
- Re: cp command - problem with sparse, Andreas Schwab, 2005/02/02
- Re: cp command - problem with sparse, Jim Meyering, 2005/02/02
- Re: cp command - problem with sparse, Andreas Schwab, 2005/02/02
- AW: cp command - problem with sparse, RE, 2005/02/02
- Re: AW: cp command - problem with sparse, Eric Blake, 2005/02/02
Re: cp command - problem with sparse, Eric Blake, 2005/02/03