On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 16:00, Matt Hyclak wrote: > > There have been a couple. The deal is that lastlog is a sparse file that is > indexed by UID. On an x86_64 system, UIDs are 32-bit, which means a 1.2TB > file, but because it's sparse, it doesn't actually take up any disk space. It does make a good test case for whether your backup method handles sparse files gracefully, though. And how long it takes to read through even if it does. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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