the sparse bit

[James Peach]

On Nov 22, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Björn JACKE wrote:

> Hi Tridge/James/Jeremy,
> 
> you all more or less touched the current sparse flag handling of Samba 3. Metze
> and I are just about to implement that like Windows does. That means we report
> all files as being *not* sparse (even if it's not fully allocated on our POSIX
> filesystem) except that the file was flagged to be sparse, which is just
> another bit setting.
> 
> The initial commit introducing the current sparse bit setting was this:
> 
> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=import/samba-cvsimport.git;a=commitdiff;h=7dfdb456d4c9bcf6ecb1f7e5c5e79989f95e5627
> 
> Is there anything which relies on the current sparse handling that is based on
> the comaprison of size and allocation size?
> 
> James: is there anything regarding this sparseness issues that affetcs Darwin
> smbfs clients?

Not to my knowledge. We push the sparse files capability bit up so that local clients can tell whether the server supports sparse files, but I don't see us using the sparse file attribute at all.

> 
> Cheers
> Björn
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