Just for the record, for Windows machines, only NTFS v5 formatted drives/partitions support sparse files. Windows 2000 or better are the only ones supporting NTFS v5. This means Win9x and FAT32 drives under 2000/XP won't be able to use sparse files.

Joel Lucsy



Christian Smith wrote:

How about taking advantage of sparse files (most OS support sparse files)
for the journal, and saving the redo pages in the new shadow file. Thus
the burden of efficiently handling mapping is bumped down to the OS.


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