From: Stelian P. <ste...@al...> - 2000-12-19 16:13:18
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:04:04PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:39:40AM -0800, ty...@va... wrote: > > If you do things right, you don't need glibc's LFS support. This is > > We strictly need some kind of glibc LFS support to make restore to work > with largefiles. Think how to restore a file with only an 8G hole in it (no one > single data block allocated). We cannot create the hole with lseek+write, we > need truncate64. Dump and restore are completly different. Dump see the filesystem only through the e2fs libraries. So Ted comments apply. Restore however uses directly the glibc functions so we must indeed use the LFS here. I don't know what is the best way to do that however (explicit support vs. implicit support)... Two different patches... Stelian. -- Stelian Pop <ste...@al...> |------------- Ingénieur Informatique Libre -------------| | Alcôve - http://www.alcove.fr - Tel: +33 1 49 22 68 00 | |----------- Alcôve, l'informatique est libre -----------| |