Are Files copied as sparse only if the source is sparse?

[OkiLeeDoki]

Or will FFS make files sparse if the destination filesystem allows it even if the original file was not sparse?

thx

[therube]

On Windows (on Win7) on copying (a sparse file) from local disk to local disk, sparse is preserved (from what I can see).

AFAIK, FFS does not have any method to copy a non-sparse source file as (to) a sparse target (file).

[OkiLeeDoki]

Yes, it does preserve sparseness, I know. As it does read each block anyway, it can as well allocate it sparse on destination if the source is not- well, in principle - the question is whether it actually does. And if not, whether this would be a good idea for even further increasing the capabilities of this nice tool.

[OkiLeeDoki]

Seems like this request got lost, so *push* - thank you.

If this is not possible yet, please move it to "General Diskussion" which according to the description is rather a "Feature Request" subforum.