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Sparse files and and copy-on-write filesystems

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Mark Morgan Lloyd

Does FPC have any support these days for creating and accessing sparse files, in particular on Linux? I'm considering a file containing a 2Gb fixed-size filesystem, with one or more sparse files logging updates. Obviously I could use something like Qemu's qcow format, but initially at least I think I'd prefer to be able to use raw files.

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]