Hello Joseph W. Sieczkowski, since you wrote:
>
> Thomas J. Orban wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have any utilities or luck getting sparse files (*.pag) to
> > behave properly under afs and not eat up the full amount of space?
>
> Unfortunately, AFS does not handle sparse files. We had a problem
> when we installed Sun's Answerbook utility in AFS and replicated it.
> The inital install on a read/write partition filled it to only 48%,
> while the replicated partitions (of the same size) filled to 104%.
>
> I have formally put an RFE (Request for Enhancement) into TransArc to
> handle sparse files in their next version of AFS (3.4). I suggest
> that you do the same. I'm sure if enough customers ask for it, then
> it will be in the next release.
Not even the standard io library on my system (IRIX 4) gives sparse files,
either local or via NFS. I fear that that is a nice feature whose life has
expired.
Thomas
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