Martin Hippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| This is not really a bug report, but you asked for information in the
| info-pages without giving me another mail address. In the chapter about
| cp invocation you write:
|
| > `--sparse=WHEN'
| > A "sparse file" contains "holes"--a sequence of zero bytes that
| > does not occupy any physical disk blocks; the `read' system call
| (...)
| > The WHEN value can be one of the following:
| (...)
| > `never'
| > Never make the output file sparse. If you find an
| > application for this option, let us know.
|
| Isn't that, what my mkswap manpage speaks of:
|
| > To setup a swap file, it is necessary to create that file
| > before running mkswap , e.g. using a command like
| >
| > # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
| >
| > Note that a swap file must not contain any holes (so,
| > using cp(1) to create the file is not acceptable).
|
| (MKSWAP(8) Linux Programmer's Manual, Linux 2.2.4, 25 March 1999 from
| the Suse 6.3 Distribution)
Yes, thanks!
I've just updated the documentation accordingly.
