[Bug 14914] files are created as sparse files when they shouldn't

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14914


Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




--- Comment #9 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2008-08-20 22:08:35 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Simple testcase:
> 1. install uTorrent
> 2. verify in uTorrents advanced settings that diskio.sparse_files is set to
> false
> 3. load a torrent and start it
> As soon as uTorrent has one piece completed it will create the to-be-downloaded
> file with target filesize. Then it will write piece data into the file.
> Under Unix the above results in having a sparsefile that is filled with piece
> data in order of download (which in the end gives a fragmented file) while
> under Windows this results in having a normal 'preallocated' file.
> The unix sparsefile can be verified by running 'ls -ls $FILENAME' and the
> Windows normal file can be verified in various places (explorer, increased
> diskusage, file-properties, etc...).
> If you do not want to install uTorrent, i can also give you a complete trace,
> but i don't think you will gain more information than what can be read from the
> attached trace already.

That doesn't qualify as a test case. Sparse files is a feature of a file
system, Wine implementation has nothig to do with it.


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