FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES not set

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 05:19:37PM -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>      On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:51:35PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>      > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:17:12PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>      > > Why is darwin the only one that supports setting
>      FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES
>      > > in source3/smbd/statvfs.c?
>      > >
>      > > Yet Samba 4.1 supports setting fsctl set_sparse (and it seems to
>      > > work), and of course ext4 and multiple local linux fs support
>      sparse
>      > > files.
>      >
>      > That's an ommision, from before we implemented the fsp->is_sparse
>      > flag in the file handle struct.
>      >
>      > Log a bug and I'll update it for Linux/BSD.
> 
>      I think this is what you want. Can I get a second
>      Team reviewer for master ?
> 
> 
> Yes, they do... but can they report back the sparse ranges?  Which is part of
> the sparse support?

I think some filesystems have ioctls that
can do that.

> Or are we stuck giving the bogus answer we give today....

Hmmm. Is it so bad we tell the client we
can do sparse ? We *can* do sparse.. :-).