On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:54:20PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >coreutils 8.10 is due soon, and has some (impressive) speedups for >copying sparse files on systems that support the FIEMAP ioctl. It seems >like Windows already has APIs for determining where the holes are in a >sparse file, so given enough time and someone to write the patch, it >would be nice to see the fiemap ioctl implemented in cygwin. > >http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
Maybe we should start adding wishlist items like this to the cygwin bugzilla. It would be nice to use it for something. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
