Xref: utzoo news.admin:8350 news.software.b:4184 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: history file size [SUMMARY OF RESPONSES] Message-ID: <1990Feb17.234949.24124@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <4364@mhres.mh.nl> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 23:49:49 GMT In article jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes: > 1. All kinds of people explained me the nature of dbm files (sparse > files). Nevertheless, the "more than 8 Mb" were *REAL* Mbytes > occupied. Unfortunately, much of the sparseness is sufficiently fine-grained that the file system can't exploit it very well, especially if the filesystem's block size is large. -- "The N in NFS stands for Not, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu