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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?
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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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