On 30-Oct-05 Tim Green wrote:
On 10/30/05, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hmmm. Any comments?
Sparse files?
So it seems (and I hadn't heard of these before).
Meanwhile, googling around, I came across a couple of interesting discussion of the issue:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/14/2003/03/4/51312
Search the page for "sparse",, and read on.
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/dulug/2005-July/016373.html
and follow the thread (started by a guy who's 'lastlog' was bigger than his hard drive).
I was particularly tickled by the dependency on user id, and the consequences of the fact the "user" nfsnobody = -1 (especially in a 64-but system).
Ah well, one learns!
Cheers, Ted.
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