The Linux FUSE kernel module has gained support for passing SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA on through lseek(). This can greatly improve performance when working with sparse files. Linux FUSE introduced support for lseek() with version 4.5. The commit in mainline Linux is 0b5da8db145bfd44266ac964a2636a0cf8d7c286. URL: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel/14752 Change-Id: I12496d788e59461a3023ddd30e0ea3179007f77e BUG: 1220173 Signed-off-by: Ravishankar N <ravishankar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/11474 Smoke: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> CentOS-regression: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> NetBSD-regression: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org> Reviewed-by: Raghavendra G <rgowdapp@redhat.com>