Re: [PATCH] dd: add punchhole feature

[Maxime de Roucy]

Le mardi 14 février 2017 à 07:57 +0100, Bernhard Voelker a écrit :
> On 02/14/2017 04:50 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 07:34:04PM -0800, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > Anyway thanks for the patch.
> > > I'm still slightly against merging as it's a guaranteed way
> > > to lose data if you ctrl-c the command or whatever.
> > > I'll let others weigh in at this point.
> > 
> > Agreed; this makes much more sense as a special purpose tool than
> > yet one more incomprensible option crammed into dd.
> 
> From a user's point, stdin respectively the if= argument has always
> been read-only and therefore safe from unwanted changes in my mind.
> The proposed feature doesn't match into this paradigm.
> If added to an existing tool, it would make more sense in
> util-linux' fallocate(1) - or even better - a dedicated tool.

OK, I understand you are against this patch on dd.

I didn't found any references (mail, sources…) to the inplace(1) tool.
Could you point me one ? Does it's development started ?

Does coreutils accept golang program ?
https://github.com/tchernomax/dump-deallocate
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Regards
Maxime de Roucy

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