On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:01 -0500, John Groves wrote:
> I am working on a data management subsystem, and would appreciate any
> insight people could share about real world applications that generate
> sparse files. Can anybody share information or pointers to applications
> that generate (and benefit from) sparse files?
Virtualization of machines.
big file system image, only parts of it are written to.
also (mostly testing) database data files. often when running a test
suite you'll just want to "generate the x MB file" as quickly as
possible and not worry about the overhead during runtime of doing sparse
files as you're only going to be writing to a small portion.
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Stewart Smith (stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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