Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only zeroes

[Joerg Schilling]

Dominique Martinet <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jumping in for lustre, for which there currently is a trivial SEEK_HOLE
> implementation that only checks file size boundaries, but I'd like to
> properly implement it soonish so I don't think tar should wait for
> lustre there.
> (not sure how Andreas feels about that though, will let him speak up)

This seems to be the wrong method.

The POSIX standard ia aligned with the original implementation that comes from 
Sun/Solaris. An implementation that does not correctly reimplements this method
thus is incorrect.

Jörg

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