On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:11:51AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Thursday, August 21, 2014 10:53 PM -0400 Brian Reichert > >You've suggested writemap in response to other questions I've asked > >on this list; I think I shall take the hint. :) > > Is your OS a BSD or Linux?
Sorry, I did fail to present that detail; this is a Linux distro, CentOS 6.5. > Last time I tried on BSD, it didn't use sparse files with writemap like > Linux does. It just made a massive file on disk of the size specified for > the maxsize. I.e., BSD didn't correctly support sparse files with writemap. Perhaps unrelated, but mdb_copy, and the native 'cp' and 'tar' commands do handle sparse files files correctly. > --Quanah > > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Server Architect > Zimbra, Inc. > -------------------- > Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration > -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large
