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Re: Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:08:56 -0000
- Subject: Re: Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)
- References: <20030218221239.U46120-100000@logout.sh.cvut.cz>
Two things - First:
Please, please don't make this the default! Once a file is sparsified, it
cannot be unsparsified except by copying the contents to a new file! This
seems like an optimization for a corner case is trying to cause a global
change.
And:
FSCTL_SET_SPARSE, used in the patch, is *not defined* in current w32api !!!
Max.