Alan McGovern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not quite, a sparse file is different to a normal file in how allocations
> happen. For example if i wanted to write 1 megabyte at an index of 100
> megabytes, a seek + write would result in a 101 megabyte file on the disk.
The file system will fake a 101 MB file (s
David Brown wrote:
> Alan McGovern wrote:
>
>> Not quite, a sparse file is different to a normal file in how
>> allocations happen. For example if i wanted to write 1 megabyte at
>> an index of 100 megabytes, a seek + write would result in a 101
>> megabyte file on the disk.
>
>> With a sparse fi
Alan McGovern wrote:
> Not quite, a sparse file is different to a normal file in how
> allocations happen. For example if i wanted to write 1 megabyte at
> an index of 100 megabytes, a seek + write would result in a 101
> megabyte file on the disk.
> With a sparse file, there'd actually be 1 mega
Hi,
Not quite, a sparse file is different to a normal file in how allocations
happen. For example if i wanted to write 1 megabyte at an index of 100
megabytes, a seek + write would result in a 101 megabyte file on the disk.
With a sparse file, there'd actually be 1 megabyte physically taken up o
Hello,
> I'm just wondering if there's a cross platform way of creating sparse
> files in c#. I was taking a look at the Mono.Unix namespace, but there
> doesn't seem to be anything there that'd do it.
Not that am aware of. I imagine that you are using the standard Unix
operations to create a sp
Hi,
I'm just wondering if there's a cross platform way of creating sparse files
in c#. I was taking a look at the Mono.Unix namespace, but there doesn't
seem to be anything there that'd do it.
Thanks,
Alan.
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