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Created September 5, 2011 13:09
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Using FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE from Python
import ctypes
import ctypes.util
c_off_t = ctypes.c_int64
def make_fallocate():
libc_name = ctypes.util.find_library('c')
libc = ctypes.CDLL(libc_name)
_fallocate = libc.fallocate
_fallocate.restype = ctypes.c_int
_fallocate.argtypes = [ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int, c_off_t, c_off_t]
del libc
del libc_name
def fallocate(fd, mode, offset, len_):
res = _fallocate(fd.fileno(), mode, offset, len_)
if res != 0:
raise IOError(res, 'fallocate')
return fallocate
fallocate = make_fallocate()
del make_fallocate
FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE = 0x01
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE = 0x02
def main(db):
orig_data = ''.join(chr(i) for i in xrange(10))
format_ = lambda s: [ord(c) for c in s]
with open(db, 'w') as fd:
fd.write(orig_data)
with open(db, 'r') as fd:
data = fd.read()
print 'Original value:', format_(data)
print 'Punching hole at offset 2, length 3'
with open(db, 'a') as fd:
fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, 2, 3)
print 'Reading file'
with open(db, 'r') as fd:
data = fd.read()
print 'New value:', format_(data)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main('punch.db')
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That a great piece of code. Unfortunately I don't understand it in details so well that I could enhance it with my feature request personally, which is to allow to pipe input on the command line into the python script and get the result as a file. I'd be very happy to see that realized.

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