Re: NEW TAR

From: Ken Smith (kensmith_at_cse.Buffalo.EDU)
Date: 07/22/04

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:55:25 -0400
    To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
    
    

    On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:22:35PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
    > <<On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:14:27 +0200, Daniel Lang <dl@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?
    >

    They also effect user quotas. The quota reflects actual disk block
    allocation, not file size. I've had users' home directories get
    copied and suddenly they're over quota (or the copy fails...) because
    of a few core files that became non-sparse...

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    						Ken Smith
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