linux-kernel - Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL(fat_get

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Message-ID: <20100817154038.GA29448@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:40:38 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Nelson Zhang <nxz@...ress.com>,
	'David Cross' <david.cross@...ress.com>,
	hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL(fat_get_block)

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:54:03AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 06:57:54AM +0800, Nelson Zhang wrote:
> > Hi David, Greg,
> > 
> > What I have done so far is following:
> > 
> > 1. Open a file 
> > 2. Seek to the end of file
> 
> That just created a "sparse file"

Not on FAT which doesn't support sparse files.

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