Has anyone tried NT_TRANSACT_IOCTL for sparse files over SMB? Natively in Windows sparseness never seems to be an implied aspect of a write beyond EOF but it could be a nice performance win to do so. Both client and server side are interesting.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/spa rse_files.asp for some native documentation. -- Conrad Minshall ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... 408 974-2749 Alternative email addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]