Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:23:03 +0100 From: James Raftery <james@kerna.ie> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in Zoo? Or is it in ls or ffs? Message-ID: <20020813142303.GD54000@bender.kerna.ie> In-Reply-To: <6C506EA550443D44A061432F1E92EA4C6C5433@ing.com> References: <6C506EA550443D44A061432F1E92EA4C6C5433@ing.com>
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:02:26PM +0200, Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl wrote: > Is this not a bug in ls or ffs as well then? > Regardless of what Zoo does, should not the OS remain sane? ``A file is sparse if it contains blocks of zeros whose existence is recorded, but that have no space allocated on disk.'' -- GNU tar man page. Be grateful sparse files exist, otherwise you would have a real 4294967352 byte file to deal with! ATB, james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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