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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:49:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@watson.org>
To:        Galen Sampson <galen_sampson@yahoo.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: extended attribute files sizes
Message-ID:  <20020301024733.G81127-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020301073228.8391.qmail@web14105.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Galen Sampson wrote:

> Is there any reason the file is shown as being 544,094,812 bytes?  I'm sure it
> is actually only 50K.  Just curious if this is something a developer should
> look at before the release (this is obviously quite minor compared to other
> things).
This is holes in files on the UFS. So you can have 1Gb file with 2 bytes
put at the end of it, which would held only 1-4Kb of space. This is not
extend attributes code specific.



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