On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:10:49AM -0400, Jeff Voskamp wrote: > T. Horsnell wrote: > >rsync and tar offer the -S switch for 'handling sparse files efficiently'. > >But when would I ever want to handle them INefficiently? i.e. why doesnt it > >do this automatically? > > > >Cheers, > >Terry. > > > Because detecting sparse files is "expensive". For files with only a > few holes (sparely sparse?) it may be deemed cheaper to waste a few > blocks on the drive rather than the CPU time to handle it "properly". Ah, thank you. Cheers, Terry > > Jeff > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list --
