16 Feb
2010
16 Feb
'10
9:26 a.m.
On 02/16/2010 05:08 AM, Dave Allan wrote:
What about for a sparse file doing just
ftruncate (fd, 0); ftruncate (fd, st.st_size);
That's a good point. The only thing that makes me hesitate is that I'm not certain that the file is guaranteed to contain zeros following the second call to ftruncate,
I think since it's sparse, it must be a regular file? If so, it would be fine as Eric pointed out.
a volume represented by a regular file on a backend that doesn't support volume delete. If that's so, we could just skip the whole zeroing operation entirely for regular files.
Looks like it... Paolo