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From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:37:00PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > <<On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:14:27 +0200, Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> said:
> > 
> > > I do not see, why it is important if the original file was sparse
> > > at all or maybe in different places.
> > 
> > You've never run out of disk space as a result of a sparse file
> > becoming non-sparse?
> 
> So, are you arguing for or against tar converting files into sparse
> files where it can as Daniel proposes?

There is no arguing on that, since tar conversion is non-default, by -S 
option.

> How does dump handle sparse files?

dump handle them as sparse by default, no disk overflow.

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