On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 09:01, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > You probably want to research into "sparse files."
Thanks Tim, One learns something every day. I had read about sparse files but never used them, since I come from an IBM 32-bit OS/2 (HPFS) background which I used for almost a full decade (1992-2002) and it didn´t have sparse file support, not even in the os2 implementation of JFS I believe -which arrived late, by around 1999. When I used Linux and FreeBSD, I was no longer doing any low-level programming, only bash and rexx, so I didn´t bother to research this. So thanks for the heads up. I´ve found the following page which details an interesting application of sparse files for virtual machines http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/tag/sparse-files/ FC -- "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." Richard Hamming - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
