> On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > Not true, I believe even UFS has this feature, it is even mentioned on
> > page 265 in Uresh Valhalla's "UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers"
> > specifically as a property of UNIX files.
>
> My apologies, I wasnt being very clear there. Yup, I assumed every Unix
> FS had them.... But none of the others that I know of.
e.g. VMS has support for sparse files too...
Harald
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