On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:51:28PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> I don't see anything particularly wrong with having it (note I have  
> not yet reviewed the actual patch), but what's the application usage?

It could be useful for any sort of processing of very large, very sparse
files.

For example some issues with >2TB filesystesm could be investigated
against a sparse real file (but not through vnd yet) without requiring
the massive disk array itself.

	David

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