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Traditional interface is zero-filling

Traditional interface is zero-filling

Posted Nov 29, 2010 12:17 UTC (Mon) by mfedyk (guest, #55303)
In reply to: Traditional interface is zero-filling by nybble41
Parent article: Punching holes in files

maybe you can write ones instead if you don't want the blocks deallocated


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Traditional interface is zero-filling

Posted Dec 29, 2010 15:33 UTC (Wed) by yoe (subscriber, #25743) [Link]

That would be a horrible, horrible hack.

Traditional interface is zero-filling

Posted Jan 20, 2011 2:22 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

And here's hoping you never swap a page full of zeros by accident...

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