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From: Tim Peeler <timpeeler@comcast.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG _llseek kernel 2.4.17
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:17:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020301161720.GA1621@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020301080327.GA18948@comcast.net> <010a01c1c10f$45a695e0$5a5b903f@h90>
In-Reply-To: <010a01c1c10f$45a695e0$5a5b903f@h90>

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:53:07AM -0500, Joseph Malicki wrote:
> Sparse files.  If you never wrote to it, it never got a block on disk... the
> kernel will return zeroes for said portions of file when you read it.

Got it.  Had no idea what sparse files were, did a google on 'em.  Now I
get it.  

Thanks,  
Tim

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      reply	other threads:[~2002-03-01 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-01  8:03 BUG _llseek kernel 2.4.17 Tim Peeler
2002-03-01  8:34 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-03-01 10:53 ` Joseph Malicki
2002-03-01 16:17   ` Tim Peeler [this message]

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