On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:16:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> One wonders why.
No, on doesn't:
> Corrections to speed-up the sizeing pass in Amanda:
Granted, star's nullout option may have been smarter, and more in the realm
of ``least surprise,'' but one can understand why gtar does this.
Try tar cf /dev/zero instead.
mrc
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