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What is the purpose of this change?
This adds the
--sparse
option as well as the--sparse-min-size
option in order to turn sequences of nulls larger than--sparse-min-size
into sparse blocks by not writing to those locations in the destination.For multithreaded copying, this is implemented for every backend that has the
OpenWriterAt
feature. For single threaded copying, a reference implementation has been done for backends/local.Note that this a reopening of changes presented in #8619. I just felt it more appropriate to create a new PR as the changes here extend beyond linux filesystems that support FS_IOC_FIEMAP.
Was the change discussed in an issue or in the forum before?
https://forum.rclone.org/t/possible-to-use-rclone-with-sparse/45189
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