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Re: cygwin-1.3.21-1, problem with sparse file creation as default
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:41:55PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:20:10PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>We've had no proof of advantages (except in one very restricted corner
>>case), and no disproof of disadvantages (i.e. speed penalties).
>
>Running a speed test would be interesting of course, but I point to an
>advantage for most of us: with 32 bit uids the /var/log/lastlog file
>can become enormous. Fortunately (for systems that support sparse
>files), it is sparse.
I think we'll have to come up with some other way of dealing with
/var/log/lastlog for Win 9x though, won't we?
cgf
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