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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] rewriting paths [was: mv vs cp]
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:05:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC3CBF2.539DA51@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27591.1002609695@apnic.net>

George Michaelson wrote:
> Something maybe not covered so far is what mv etc do with sparce files,
> if memory serves me right some operations are 'safe' and some have a habit
> of filling the empty extent with data, having unforseen consequences for
> the real size of used disk.
> Of course, if 9 doesn't have them, it doesn't have the problem either.

It wouldn't much matter, since it's just an optimization issue and
could be "fixed".


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-10  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
2001-10-09  6:25 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-10-09  6:41   ` George Michaelson
2001-10-10  9:05     ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-10-09 14:19   ` Richard
2002-07-16 16:08 [9fans] useful language extension, or no? rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:31 ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:24 ` [9fans] more extensions FJ Ballesteros
2002-07-16 16:26   ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:28   ` Howard Trickey
2002-07-16 17:09     ` [9fans] New language? Sam
2002-07-17  5:45       ` GBA
2002-07-17  6:23         ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-16 18:23   ` [9fans] more extensions Scott Schwartz
2002-07-16 18:47     ` Dan Cross
2002-07-16 19:05       ` Jon Snader
2002-07-17  8:58   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-07 16:23 [9fans] mv vs cp jmk
2001-10-08 17:43 ` [9fans] rewriting paths [was: mv vs cp] Richard Uhtenwoldt

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