Re: BUG _llseek kernel 2.4.17

Tim Peeler (timpeeler@comcast.net)
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:17:20 -0500


On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:53:07AM -0500, Joseph Malicki wrote:
> Sparse files. If you never wrote to it, it never got a block on disk... the
> kernel will return zeroes for said portions of file when you read it.

Got it. Had no idea what sparse files were, did a google on 'em. Now I
get it.

Thanks,
Tim

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