Re: when does btrfs create sparse extents?

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22.04.2020 21:52, Marek Behun пишет:
> Hello,
> 
> there was a bug fixed recently in U-Boot's btrfs driver - the driver
> failed to read files with sparse extents. This causes that sometimes
> device failes to boot Linux, since the kernel fails to load from
> storage.
> 

Do you mean that kernel image (vmlinuz?) had holes? Or there were some
other files that caused U-Boot to fail?

> So when does kernel's btrfs driver write sparse extents? Is it always
> when it finds a PAGE_SIZEd and aligned all-zeros block? Or is it more
> complicated?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Marek
> 




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