-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/01/12 11:00, Simon Slavin wrote: > That's a bit of handwaving. What happens is that the file system > doesn't itself write zeros to the disk surface.
Not handwaving and Unix has operated this way since the early days. They are called sparse files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8fCUoACgkQmOOfHg372QTznQCg5lezhupQx8fVtExLjZthottc KtcAnjjgzG2MfdhLf6RGf7vgRi9wjaXL =Atgu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
