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Re: About removing files

To: yoros@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: About removing files
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:19:11 -0700
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:00:06PM +0200, yoros@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I think it happends the second situation. Yes, I am downloading more
> than one file to the same directory (downloads directory :) and I
> obtain that results.

How many files at once and how fast do they download?

> Seen this results I am thinking about the creation of a sparse file.

What application are we talking about here?

> Creating sparse files, helps files to be fragmented? (sorry, making
> a complex questions is hard to me).

Sparse files are fragmented almost by defintion ... sparse files have
holes in them ... and having holes pretty much means you end up with
discontiguous regions of data (the two exceptions here are
hole-at-start and hole-at-end).


  --cw


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