Otto Moerbeek wrote:
You are wrong in thinking sparse files are a problem. Having sparse
files quite a nifty feature, I would say.
-Otto
I take your word for it. I have to say the first time I saw the word, my
English wasn't good to understand the meaning of it applied to
computers. So, I did overlook it sadly. However, trying to find why that
might be good, at the moment I can't think of a reason. But having a
file that is let say 1MB of valid data that grow very quickly to 4 and
6GB quickly and takes time to rsync between servers were in one instance
fill the fill system and create other problem. (:> I wouldn't call that
a feature. But at the same time, I wasn't using the -S switch in rsync,
so my own stupidity there. However, why spend lots of time processing
empty files I still don't understand that however.
I did research on google for sparse files and try to get more
informations about it. In some cases I would assume like if you do round
database type of stuff where you have a fix file that you write in at
various place or something, would be good and useful, but a sparse file
that keep growing over time uncontrol, I may be wrong, but I don't call
that useful feature.
But again, I don't know it all for sure.
Thanks
Daniel
