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Re: HEADSUP everyone: 32/64bit changes are commited


On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:36:11AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >
> > > Pierre,
> > >
> > > First off, there is a patch (in?) that allows sparse files on NT+, so it
> > > may not be that much of a deal on those systems (unless the indices are
> > > dense enough, which is not going to happen).  Is the above likely to be a
> > > problem on Win9x?
> >
> > Good point.
> > On Win9x mkpasswd limits the uid to 64k, so not a real problem.
> > Are sparse files available on all NT versions and all file systems?
> 
> I think NTFS only... :-(

<pedantic>
NTFS5
</pedantic>

Corinna

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