>From Peter Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:27:12PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote: >> > does linux have equivalent functionality, or was the freenet 3 style >> > big directory datastore not a problem there anyway? >> > >> >> All the popular linux filesystems do efficient sparse files, IIRC. As >> for java support, no clue. :) > >They have support yes, but how do you delete part of a file after you >don't need a section of data anymore?
NT has an ioctl that zeroes out a range of bytes, and deallocates file space as appropriate. I'm told linux doesn't have that. -- Benjamin Coates _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
