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Make hexdump sparse aware #2855

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crass opened this issue Mar 26, 2024 · 1 comment
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Make hexdump sparse aware #2855

crass opened this issue Mar 26, 2024 · 1 comment
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crass commented Mar 26, 2024

When hexdumping files that are sparse large performance improvements can be gained by skipping holes in the file. This could most easily be achieved by using seek() with SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA (using fiemap() syscall would be more complicated and unnecessary).
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I like this idea. Volunteers? ;-)

@karelzak karelzak added the TODO We going to think about it ;-) label Mar 26, 2024
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