Note that the ftruncate man page says ftruncate can fail (when called to extend a file) on filesystems like VFAT. I don't know if vfat even supports sparse files, but you need to make sure the file actually ends up at the right length, unless you want to just return an error when someone uses cp --sparse to a lame filesystem.
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