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SubjectRe: Ext2fs and hashed table.
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> 	   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.

GNU tar option --sparse / -S handles sparse files.

Ralf

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