[1200] in Moira
Re: nfs.sh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. Jay Berkenbilt)
Thu Oct 22 01:42:37 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:39:58 -0400
From: "E. Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb@ql.org>
To: marc@MIT.EDU
Cc: dkk@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <t53zpapw6of.fsf@rover.cygnus.com> (message from Marc Horowitz on
22 Oct 1998 00:40:16 -0400)
In the unlikely event that someone goes to the trouble of writing a
sparse-file-aware cp, feel free to start with
~qjb/source/util/tools/sparsecp.c. I wrote this program millions of
years ago to serve a very specific purpose. (Creating Linux boot
disks, actually.) It's a stupid program -- it has no fancy options
and doesn't even let you copy a file to a directory by just naming the
directory. But the logic for preserving sparseness in files is
there. I've used this program many times without any trouble. I
don't use it anymore though -- I just use gnu tar or gnu cp. :-)
Jay
