On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: > As a general comment (not addressed to Tim): There _is_ a downside to > sparsifying files. If you take a sparse file and start filling in the > holes, the net result will be very badly fragmented and hence have very > poor sequential I/O performance. If you're never going to update a file > then making it sparse makes sense, if you will be updating it, you will > get better performance by making it non-sparse.
Aha! Thanks for that, Peter. -- Dave, wondering why anyone would *not* want sparse files... _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
