Add dd sparse output mode
Review Request #662 — Created Sept. 15, 2017 and updated — Latest diff uploaded
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seeemef@mac.com | |
illumos-gate | |
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It would be convenient to have a conv=sparse mode for /usr/bin/dd akin to FreeBSD's and compatible with illumos's ostride mode. N.b. the patch has many git-pbchk, cstyle fixes; but the effective changes are the new flsh2() and dd_close() functions and the two, new calls to the latter when reading input either has finished or produced an error.
* added dd_copy_test runner (and supporting scripts, bincomp and mkrandzero): ** regular-file dd for an input with no NUL bytes ** regular-file conv=sparse dd for an input with no NUL bytes ** regular-file dd for an input with some NUL bytes (random, but with certain, tail NUL blocks) ** regular-file conv=sparse dd for an input with some NUL bytes (random, but with certain, tail NUL blocks) ** regular-file dd for an input with all NUL bytes ** regular-file conv=sparse dd for an input with all NUL bytes ** same tests as above but for writing to a ZVOL ** same tests as above but for writing to a ZVOL in multiple passes using ostride ** same tests as above but for writing to a ZVOL in multiple passes using ostride with alternate block size