On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Basically anything that is filled in over time, or filled in
sparsely,
could potentially benefit.
I think the word "sparsely" here is confusing me. This function
preallocates disk space, right? So I wouldn't want to use it for a
file that I expect to be a "sparse file" throughout most or all of its
lifetime, because then I would be forcing zero-filled blocks onto the
disk. Can you explain what you meant by "filled in sparsely"?
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