Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: fat problem in 2.4.2 | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:21:03 -0500 (EST) |
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Alexander Viro writes:
[about file expansion by truncate]
> Basically, the program depends on behaviour that was never guaranteed > to be there.
1. it is useful 2. it is documented in a few places AFAIK 3. it is portable enough for Star Office (Solaris I guess)
> BTW, _some_ subset is doable on FAT. You can't always do it (bloody > thing doesn't support holes), but you can try the following (warning - > untested patch):
Holes are nothing special. They are just a simple type of compression. We are doing overcommit on filesystems, and need an OOD killer to wipe out big files like the Star Office executable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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