Re: How nautilus "calculates" filesizes

["A. Walton" <awalton gnome org>]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jonas Haag <jonas jonashaag de> wrote:
> Are you sure? I don't think it's possible to write 700MBs of (random) data
> within a second or less to the harddisk (which is also crypted...). By the
> way, even GNOME tools like Transmission would create their files this way...

It's possible to create a file of arbitrary size in hardly any time at
all. Look up "sparse files" (the second case in Christian's statement
above). It's very common of torrent clients to operate in this way.

Also, Transmission is not a GNOME tool.

-A.Walton

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