one data point: > How large a number? I have very little basis for more than wild > guessing here; I rarely use sparse files, and even more rarely use > files sparse enough to make a significant difference from a quota point > of view. > > Furthermore, those few uses are generally administrative, the kind of > thing that either is on a non-quota filesystem or is owned by a user > who can be exempted from quotas without harm (eg, root). > > Do you have experience or studies indicating that this is another > respect in which I am an outlier?
i use extremely large sparse files (TB's of "size") that are rarely more than a couple of GB of actual data pretty often. .mrg.
