Peter Jeremy wrote:
As a general comment (not addressed to Tim): There _is_ a downside to sparsifying files.
How people use (or misuse) such a feature is just not my concern. I've not seen anyone on this thread suggest that such sparsification be done by default, and there are certainly rare situations where sparsification is useful. The tar implementation is about 95% system-independent file format work and 5% system-dependent hole mapping. The mapping process is the easy part. (And therefore, for me, the least interesting part.) A system call could make it accurate, but it's not enough code to fuss over either way. Tim _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
