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collector/extractor: detect files with large sparse ranges #3809

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joachimmetz opened this issue Aug 6, 2021 · 1 comment
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collector/extractor: detect files with large sparse ranges #3809

joachimmetz opened this issue Aug 6, 2021 · 1 comment
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Sometimes certain files have large sparse ranges (/var/log/lastlog), currently these are processed naively. It would be good to detect these on the file system level and have parsers only look at the non-sparse data ranges.
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joachimmetz commented Aug 6, 2021 •
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need means to expose extents in dfVFS log2timeline/dfvfs#597

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