On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:37:00PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:14:27 +0200, Daniel Lang <dl_at_leo.org> said: > > > > > I do not see, why it is important if the original file was sparse > > > at all or maybe in different places. > > > > You've never run out of disk space as a result of a sparse file > > becoming non-sparse? > > So, are you arguing for or against tar converting files into sparse > files where it can as Daniel proposes? There is no arguing on that, since tar conversion is non-default, by -S option. > How does dump handle sparse files? dump handle them as sparse by default, no disk overflow. -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/Received on Fri Jul 23 2004 - 09:09:35 UTC
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