Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)

Vaclav Haisman V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz
Wed Feb 19 01:19:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Well, why not have BitTorrent set the file as sparse?

Because it runs as Cygwin app which is Unix-like environment. There is no way
to set files sparse in Unix because all files are sparse if the file systems
supports it.

Vaclav Haisman



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