Sparsify / hole punching tool

2012-11-18 Thread Remco Hosman - Yerf IT
I wrote a little tool you can use to scan a file and punch holes, so make it sparse. Confirmed to work on 3.7.0-rc6 Feel free to use it in any way you like, and of course improve it. http://pastebin.com/8SjEsBLD Remco Hosman-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Sparsify / hole punching tool

2012-11-18 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:04:29PM +0100, Remco Hosman - Yerf IT wrote: I wrote a little tool you can use to scan a file and punch holes, so make it sparse. Confirmed to work on 3.7.0-rc6 Feel free to use it in any way you like, and of course improve it. http://pastebin.com/8SjEsBLD

Re: Sparsify / hole punching tool

2012-11-18 Thread Remco Hosman - Yerf IT
as requested. like this? ---begin #define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include fcntl.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h #include errno.h #include stdio.h #include string.h #include linux/falloc.h #include unistd.h #define BLOCKSIZE 4096 int main(int argc,