Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Holey files, Batman!
Message-ID: <9978@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 14:28:01 GMT
References: <143@aoa.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  Your original idea will work for copying sparse files from disk to
disk.  The problem comes in copying them to a backup device and
reloading them.  I know of no program to do this, although it would be
easy to have the reload program write a sparse file if blocks of zeros
were encountered. 

Is there a problem with this? That is, is there a way to tell a sparse
file from a file with a lot of zeros?

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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