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Re: cp command - problem with sparse


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: cp command - problem with sparse
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:40:10 +0100
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Is this just theoretical, or do you know of a file system type
> that'd cause trouble (that doesn't support sparse files, yet for
> which meta data can take up extra space)?

It's just a guess, I don't know of any example.  It might well be that
going from 64K to 128K on hfs could result in enough meta data to be
allocated so that the total size rounds up to 129 (assuming that such meta
data is actually accounted for in the stat data).

Andreas.

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