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On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:54:20PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>coreutils 8.10 is due soon, and has some (impressive) speedups for
>copying sparse files on systems that support the FIEMAP ioctl.  It seems
>like Windows already has APIs for determining where the holes are in a
>sparse file, so given enough time and someone to write the patch, it
>would be nice to see the fiemap ioctl implemented in cygwin.
>
>http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt

Maybe we should start adding wishlist items like this to the cygwin
bugzilla.  It would be nice to use it for something.

cgf

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