> They surely store the uncompressed size somewhere NTFS certainly stores that. It's the field referred to as "real" at eg http://ftp.kolibrios.org/users/Asper/docs/NTFS/ntfsdoc.html#id4793056. ("allocated" is what it says on the tin. "initialized" would be smaller than "real" if it's compressed or sparse.)
> but I'd be surprised if any fs actually worked this way Perhaps something that wrote to tape, long enough ago that it's missing all the layers of abstraction that Frank rightly mentions. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
