Re: performance degradation because of sparse file handling in cygwin

2004-04-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:37 AM 4/12/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > I have some questions about handling of sparse file in cygwin 1.5.5 >onwards. cygwin makes a file as a sparse if there is a write request >beyond 128 KB from file end. I am not sure whether it is a heuristic or >some statistical fact governs the use of 128

performance degradation because of sparse file handling in cygwin

2004-04-12 Thread Vinay Kumar
Hi, I have some questions about handling of sparse file in cygwin 1.5.5 onwards. cygwin makes a file as a sparse if there is a write request beyond 128 KB from file end. I am not sure whether it is a heuristic or some statistical fact governs the use of 128 KB. Please clarify. The code of fhandl