On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 at 11:01, Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does OpenSSH scp/sftp mode transfer sparse files correctly, i.e. are > holes skipped and not transferred as chunks of 0 bytes? [1] > > We're asking about sparse files in the >= 1PB range, which consists of > multi-TB holes with around 600-2000GB of valid data. > > [1] Note the difference: Sparse files can have data sections which > consist of valid 0 bytes. Holes in sparse files represent regions > where no data space is allocated, but they read as 0 bytes > > Lionel I filed https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3798 for sparse file copy support Lionel _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
