Re: [PATCH 08/11] streaming_write_entry(): support files with holes
From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:51:15
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
One typical use of a large binary file is to hold a sparse on-disk hash table with a lot of holes. Help preserving the holes with lseek().
Should that be done only with big enough holes? Random zeros may increase the number of syscalls unnecessarily. -- Duy