<p>Apologies for the top post. I simply forgot to not do that.</p>
<p>On Aug 5, 2011 8:11 AM, "Greg Freemyer" <<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> There are no "specs" as to how a sparse file is handled in response to writes.<br>
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> Sparse is mostly beneficial when the holes are very large.<br>
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> If an app really wants to have minimal on disk space, you should pre-allocate space with fallocate.<br>
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> You may even need to hole punch after the writes. Both xfs and ext4 support both fallocate and hole punching. (I don't know the userspace call to hole punch. I think its a relatively new feature for ext4.)<br>
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> Greg<br>
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> On Aug 4, 2011 10:16 PM, "Ashish Sangwan" <<a href="mailto:ashishsangwan2@gmail.com">ashishsangwan2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p>Greg </p>