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Define large?  It appears that filesystems going back to Research V4 =
supported sparse files.    The maximum file size went up from 2**24 in =
V6 to 2**32 in V7, and then broke that barrier in several of the =
subsequent file systems.

> On Apr 10, 2019, at 10:37 PM, Erik E. Fair <fair-tuhs@netbsd.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> When did the Unix filesystem add the semantics for "files with holes" =
(large,
> sparse files)?
>=20
> Just an idle question that was sparked by a conversation I had today.
>=20
> 	Erik <fair@clock.org>