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To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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Subject: Re: any interest? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 95 01:48:02 +0800."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 11:02:48 -0700
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>On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> 
>> From: nils@guru.stgt.sub.org (Cornelis van der Laan)
>[...]
>> The usual way under SunOS is 'mkfile 4m /some/file'. This way
>> no disk blocks are allocated until they are actually needed. 
>
>    If we had a filesystem that dealt with sparse files correctly,

   Uhh, we do - FFS deals with them just fine.

-DG