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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -----------------------------------------------------------------=0A= ATTENTION:=0A= The information in this electronic mail message is private and=0A= confidential, and only intended for the addressee. Should you=0A= receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that=0A= any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this=0A= message is strictly prohibited. Please inform the sender by=0A= reply transmission and delete the message without copying or=0A= opening it.=0A= =0A= Messages and attachments are scanned for all viruses known.=0A= If this message contains password-protected attachments, the=0A= files have NOT been scanned for viruses by the ING mail domain.=0A= Always scan attachments before opening them.=0A= ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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