Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <02b901c31e3e$07077240$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: Subject: Re: SPARSE files considered harmful - please revert Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 20:37:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 John Vincent wrote: > You say that any areas that are seeked over should be sparse as well. That > is true on many Unix/Linux file systems. I've not seen anything to suggest > it's true on NTFS though, have you? Just speculation. But, the point is, given the numbers suggesting that sparse small files take up way too many clusters, can sparse files in Cygwin be turned off by default, please? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/