10 Sep
2004
10 Sep
'04
3:49 p.m.
Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote: <snip>
Normally we would have a regression test that identifies the systems which fail. But we don't test large file support directly because to do so would be a burden on those who run the regression tests; such tests would chew up gigabytes of disk space and might also be very slow. <snip>
why so? Unix file-systems support sparse files, as does NTFS.