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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory 'cp' and slack space Post 302117958 by sysgate on Thursday 17th of May 2007 10:48:20 AM
Old 05-17-2007
This is a good question, actually, each filesystem has its own rules for slack space. Let's consider UFS or ext3, as they act the same in this meaning :
Quote:
By default, sparse SOURCE files are detected by a crude heuristic and the corresponding DEST file is made sparse as well. That is the behavior selected by --sparse=auto. Specify --sparse=always to create a sparse DEST file whenever the SOURCE file contains a long enough sequence of zero bytes. Use --sparse=never to inhibit creation of sparse files.
where sparse files are a type of computer files that attempt to use file system space more efficiently; so, "cp" by default doesn't use slack space, means , it's optimized for work.
 

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copyinstr(9r)															     copyinstr(9r)

NAME
copyinstr - General: Copies a null-terminated string from a user address space to a kernel address space SYNOPSIS
int copyinstr( char *user_src, char *kernel_dest, int maxlength, int *lencopied ); ARGUMENTS
Specifies the address in user space of the null-terminated string to be copied. Specifies the address in kernel space to copy the null- terminated string to. Specifies the maximum number of bytes to copy. Specifies the actual length of the string copied. DESCRIPTION
The copyinstr routine copies a specified null-terminated string from the unprotected user address space to a specified address in the pro- tected kernel address space. CAUTIONS
If the string being copied is not null terminated, copyinstr copies maxlength bytes into the kernel address space. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, copyinstr returns the value 0 (zero) and the actual length of the string copied to the lencopied argument. Oth- erwise, it returns one of the following error constants defined in /usr/sys/include/sys/errno.h: The address in user space that you speci- fied in the user_src argument cannot be accessed. The length of the string exceeds the maxlength value. SEE ALSO
Routines: copyoutstr(9r) copyinstr(9r)
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