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 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION: The information in this electronic mail message is private and confidential, and only intended for the addressee. Should you receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this message is strictly prohibited. Please inform the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or opening it. Messages and attachments are scanned for all viruses known. If this message contains password-protected attachments, the files have NOT been scanned for viruses by the ING mail domain. Always scan attachments before opening them. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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