:>
:What will happen, if somebody (possibly you, as mahordomo says), tries to
:make a backup of that file.
That will depend on the backup program. dump/restore can handle
holes just fine. tar can handle them in a 'fake' way, and you have
to tell it. Programs like 'cp' cannot handle holes.... they'll
copy the zero's.
:I'd be afraid to create something which could easily blow up by having
:normal operations applied to it.
:
:Leif
Yes, there's a high probability of that. It's one of the reasons
why people typically use the feature, at least not for 'permanent'
data sets.
-Matt
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