🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello again!

It seems to me that when extracting files from an archive with the
-S/--sparse flag,  it would be a nice feature to be able to create the
files sparsely where appropriate, regardless of whether the archive was
created with the -S/--sparse flag.  I have in fact made such an
enhancement here that I'd be happy to submit if there's interest at
your end.  All that's necessary is to be willing to trade a bit of
processor time for potential disk space savings - we see if each
block of extracted data is composed entirely of zero's and lseek
the output file as appropriate if so.   Blocks are defined,
for BSD-derived systems, by the blocksize of the target file system.
(I guess the V7/old USG blocksize should be a fixed 512, right?)

Let me know if you're interested in this enhancement - I can send
it along if so.

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