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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Complex filesystem operations: split and join
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:01:19 +0900
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Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com> writes:

>> I have no objections to such those operations (likewise make hole,
>> truncate any range, etc. etc.).
>
> As far as FAT is concerned, Sparse files would break the on-disk format?

Yes. In the case of making hole on FAT, I guess it will return the
error, or emulate it by zero fill.

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>