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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

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