On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:11:51AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Thursday, August 21, 2014 10:53 PM -0400 Brian Reichert
You've suggested writemap in response to other questions I've asked on this list; I think I shall take the hint. :)
Is your OS a BSD or Linux?
Sorry, I did fail to present that detail; this is a Linux distro, CentOS 6.5.
Last time I tried on BSD, it didn't use sparse files with writemap like Linux does. It just made a massive file on disk of the size specified for the maxsize. I.e., BSD didn't correctly support sparse files with writemap.
Perhaps unrelated, but mdb_copy, and the native 'cp' and 'tar' commands do handle sparse files files correctly.
--Quanah
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