On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:48:29PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > There has been very little actual data provided here > > Here is some data, using the program from > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00321.html > > I remade the executables in an old version of inetutils. > The numbers below show that only the larger ones are sparse > (so the relative overhead is small) and that stripping them > removes sparseness. > > Pierre
Hi Pierre, I did the same here and I've added the block count which shows how much blocks has been wasted by being a sparse file: 188 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 191765 Jun 6 09:55 ./ftp/ftp.exe Sparse bit 200 497 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 508186 Jun 6 09:55 ./ftpd/ftpd.exe Sparse bit 200 748 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 765264 Jun 6 09:55 ./inetd/inetd.exe Sparse bit 200 75 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 76703 Jun 6 09:55 ./rcp/rcp.exe Sparse bit 0 397 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 406162 Jun 6 09:55 ./rexecd/rexecd.exe Sparse bit 200 71 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 71934 Jun 6 09:55 ./rlogin/rlogin.exe Sparse bit 0 93 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 94908 Jun 6 09:55 ./rlogind/rlogind.exe Sparse bit 200 63 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 63796 Jun 6 09:55 ./rsh/rsh.exe Sparse bit 0 72 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 73679 Jun 6 09:55 ./rshd/rshd.exe Sparse bit 0 43 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 43306 Jun 6 09:55 ./syslog/syslog.exe Sparse bit 0 203 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 207452 Jun 6 09:55 ./talk/talk.exe Sparse bit 200 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 83924 Jun 6 09:55 ./talkd/talkd.exe Sparse bit 200 250 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 255853 Jun 6 09:55 ./telnet/telnet.exe Sparse bit 200 180 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 183916 Jun 6 09:55 ./telnetd/telnetd.exe Sparse bit 200 78 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 78942 Jun 6 09:55 ./tftp/tftp.exe Sparse bit 0 68 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 69378 Jun 6 09:55 ./tftpd/tftpd.exe Sparse bit 0 64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 64758 Jun 6 09:55 ./uucpd/uucpd.exe Sparse bit 0 So there's no waste of blocks at all. To make people more happy I've raised the lseek hole which triggers making a file sparse to 128K. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
