Re: SEEK_HOLE defined but useless on linux-3.4+/ext4 [Re: small ascii files can be sparse

[Paul Eggert]

On 07/31/2012 09:52 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> fstat uses a file descriptor.
> Calling fstatfs on that same file descriptor should
> give a reliable (race-free) file system type.

Ah, sorry, I thought the idea was to cache the
statfs info so that we didn't need to invoke
two system calls for each file.  But yes, if
there's no cache we should be OK.