On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Steven French wrote: > FYI - The CIFS VFS handles large files and has been tested with RedHat 7.3 > version of the kernel. It was a pain to test due to the lack of sparse > file support on the Linux side (I had not seen an equivalent to the sparse > flag on the Linux side - but it sure helps on the Windows side in creating > test files).
What lack of sparse file support? $ dd if=/dev/zero of=aa bs=512 count=1 seek=1024 1+0 records in 1+0 records out $ d aa -rw-rw-r-- 1 puw puw 524800 Jun 21 03:26 aa $ du -h aa 8.0k aa There is no flag because it is always supported (given filesystem backing, and all unix-like filesystems support it). Just truncate it to the size you want it to be. /Urban
