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From: scott@rdahp.UUCP (Scott Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sparse Files ?  (used often?)
Message-ID: <228@rdahp.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 00:24:16 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@rdahp.UUCP (Scott Hammond)
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In article <30481@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>In article <19342@adm.BRL.MIL> mark@ria-emh2.army.mil (Mark D. McKamey IM SA) writes:
>|     What is the definition of a "Sparse file" in the UNIX world?
>
>[discussion on how it works]

I'm interested in knowing how much UNIX _application_ software (besides
news, mailers, or pathalias) uses sparse files.  In particular, given an
underlying file system implementation which doesn't permit holes, are
there many of situations where a lot of space is going to be wasted by
traditional attempts at creating sparse files? 
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