Re: Ext2fs and hashed table.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Jun 1997 03:10:29 GMT

Followup to: <199706050003.UAA00699@jenolan.caipgeneral>
By author: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 01:51:58 +0300 (EET DST)
> From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi>
>
> Yes, sparse files make a lot of sense.
>
> Except for the administrator of a machine with evil users who
> purposesly make files with huge holes in them, the volume gets backed
> up to tape using tar and fits, he tries to restore it later and lo and
> behold the disk lacks the room for the files. Classic problem.
>

At least GNU tar I am pretty sure restores holes as well...

-hpa

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