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Re: Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)
- From: Vaclav Haisman <V dot Haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:19:50 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Well, why not have BitTorrent set the file as sparse?
Because it runs as Cygwin app which is Unix-like environment. There is no way
to set files sparse in Unix because all files are sparse if the file systems
supports it.
Vaclav Haisman