The man page I have claims to be part of 4th Berkeley Distribution Manual Section 8.
However the authors both have redhat e-mail addresses. Its inclusion in section 8 does more or less qualify it as 'system' software, which in modern systems one CERTAINLY expects to store sparse files efficiently. So I agree, this probably ought to be brought to the attention of the package maintainers. Anybody know who that would be? Erik Johnson On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Larry Ploetz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/8/09 12:21 PM, Erik N Johnson wrote: >> >> Does this failure to behave as one might hope perhaps constitute a bug >> in a widely used admin utility? >> >> > > Hmmm...I think so, now that you mention it...at least, I know I'd prefer > logrotate to keep sparse files sparse. > > - Larry > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
