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Re: fiemap ioctl wishlist
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:10:31 -0500
- Subject: Re: fiemap ioctl wishlist
- References: <4D49B66C.8030602@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:54:20PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>coreutils 8.10 is due soon, and has some (impressive) speedups for
>copying sparse files on systems that support the FIEMAP ioctl. It seems
>like Windows already has APIs for determining where the holes are in a
>sparse file, so given enough time and someone to write the patch, it
>would be nice to see the fiemap ioctl implemented in cygwin.
>
>http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
Maybe we should start adding wishlist items like this to the cygwin
bugzilla. It would be nice to use it for something.
cgf
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