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| From: | Joerg Schilling |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Re: Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Jan 2018 11:12:33 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
This is what star uses since 13 years ;-)
Jörg
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