On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 09:51:24AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Description : interact with sparse files > > This doesn't align with the extended description. Sounds more like > "automated creation and inspection of sparse files". I'll tweak the short the description. I disagree that mine doesn't align with the long one, though. > > This package contains the utilities sparsemap and mksparse. Sparsemap > > lists the areas of a file that are holes and data, and mksparse creates > > a new file with holes and data. > > It would be nice to have such functionality directly in fallocate(1) > rather than having to install python 3 just for that. Feel free to get fallocate upstream to change it to work like mksparse does, and to write a tool like sparsemap. -- I want to build worthwhile things that might last. --joeyh
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