From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:53:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] streaming_write_entry(): support files with holes Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1305505831-31587-9-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Junio C Hamano 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