# -*- sh -*- # Does the current (working-dir.) file system support sparse files? # Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # Test whether we can create a sparse file. # For example, on Darwin6.5 with a file system of type hfs, it's not possible. # NTFS requires 128K before a hole appears in a sparse file. t=sparse.$$ dd bs=1 seek=128K of=$t < /dev/null 2> /dev/null set x `du -sk $t` kb_size=$2 rm -f $t if test $kb_size -ge 128; then skip_test_ 'this file system does not support sparse files' fi