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On 2025-02-12 09:32, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> Is copying sparse files broken in 3.6.0-0.362.g68c13dc92f65.x86_64?
> cp --version
> cp (GNU coreutils) 9.5
> Packaged by Cygwin (9.5-1
> Checklist:
> - Volume has FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES
> - Cygwin mount has "sparse" option (mount Y: -o sparse,exec /cygdrive/y)
> - source file has FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE set
> 
> But  cp --sparse=auto ... or any other combination of --sparse does
> copy holes, i.e. turns 500GB of hole into 500GB of data (zero bytes).
> 
> echo "hello sparse file\n" >testcase17_sparse_begins_with_data && dd
> if=/dev/null of=testcase17_sparse_begins_with_data oflag=append bs=1
> count=1 seek=$((65536*512)) && echo "endoffile"
>>> testcase17_sparse_begins_with_data

Does that include --sparse=always not creating holes, and how are you checking 
whether the file is stored as sparse with holes or not - should this be visible 
in dir/ls file sizes?

It may be unsupported in Cygwin cp (coreutils) - build tests detect 
insufficient? SEEK_DATA support, inability to create large sparse files, and the 
(NTFS) file system as not supporting sparse files.

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