Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 11:02:48 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any interest? Message-ID: <199504021802.LAA00189@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 95 01:48:02 %2B0800." <Pine.BSI.3.91.950403014517.20912W-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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>On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> >> From: nils@guru.stgt.sub.org (Cornelis van der Laan) >[...] >> The usual way under SunOS is 'mkfile 4m /some/file'. This way >> no disk blocks are allocated until they are actually needed. > > If we had a filesystem that dealt with sparse files correctly, Uhh, we do - FFS deals with them just fine. -DG
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