--On 16 September 2011 10:26:09 +0200 Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...> wrote:
So yesterday I implemented the fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) stuff for NBD_CMD_TRIM. It's compile-tested, but not yet functionally tested. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how to test whether a file is sparse in a particular region; anyone?
I think you can use debugfs's dump_extents command (from memory). -- Alex Bligh