Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 01:45:05 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com>, Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: any interest? Message-ID: <jPXhnVliP9@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199504021839.LAA07473@trout.sri.MT.net>; from Nate Williams at Sun, 2 Apr 1995 11:39:03 -0700 References: <199504021802.LAA00189@corbin.Root.COM> <Pine.BSI.3.91.950403022657.20912a-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> <199504021839.LAA07473@trout.sri.MT.net>
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In message <199504021839.LAA07473@trout.sri.MT.net> Nate Williams
writes:
>Brian Tao writes:
>> > > If we had a filesystem that dealt with sparse files correctly,
>> >
>> > Uhh, we do - FFS deals with them just fine.
>>
>> Hmmmm... what was that discussion a few weeks back about sparse
>> files then?
>Tar didn't realize that FFS handled them correctly so it didn't work
>correctly. It has since been corrected.
Use --sparse option.
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