Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> One typical use of a large binary file is to hold a sparse on-disk hash >> table with a lot of holes. Help preserving the holes with lseek(). > > Should that be done only with big enough holes? Random zeros may > increase the number of syscalls unnecessarily. I think that is a valid concern, but doesn't the code do that already? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html