Making FIEMAP and delayed allocation play well together

cp seems to be using FIEMAP on the src file to detect sparseness (i.e. holes) so it doesn't waste time reading potentially a lot of zeros. Unix already has good support for generating a sparse dst (unless dst is being overwritten). Next consider 'cp /dev/sda /dev/sdb' (don't try that at home) with unmapped (aka trimmed) blocks on /dev/sda . The SCSI GET LBA STATUS command on /dev/sda would play the same role as FIEMAP.