Re: Question about sparse files

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:58:07PM -0500, John Groves wrote:
> Thanks Nathan and Eric.  Roger to Eric's point re: holes smaller than 
> the filesystem blocksize (I suppose I could lseek past a small chunk 
> while writing, it just wouldn't be a hole, right?)
> 
> I presume that my hole must not just be a multiple of the filesystem 
> blocksize -- it should also be blocksize-aligned.  A single-block chunk 
> that I lseek past while writing would be two sub-blocksize null sections 
> (but not a hole) unless it's blocksize-aligned.  Right?

Right.

-- 
Nathan