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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:25:49 +0200
From:      <Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl>
To:        <james@kerna.ie>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Bug in Zoo? Or is it in ls or ffs?
Message-ID:  <6C506EA550443D44A061432F1E92EA4C6C5437@ing.com>

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Well, you learn something new every day.
I'll track down the Zoo people and send an email.

-D

-----Original Message-----
From: James Raftery [mailto:james@kerna.ie]
Sent: dinsdag 13 augustus 2002 16:23
To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Bug in Zoo? Or is it in ls or ffs?


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=20
is recorded, but that have no space allocated on disk.''
  -- GNU tar man page.

Be grateful sparse files exist, otherwise you would have a=20
real 4294967352 byte file to deal with!


ATB,
james

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