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Re: size on disk of tied hashesby ctilmes (Vicar) |
| on Aug 11, 2004 at 01:03 UTC ( [id://381824]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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How are you determining how much space it takes? Have you looked at the total disk space available before and after making the file?
The reason I ask is that some of the *DBM mechanisms use "holey" (sparse) files where their size is bigger than the amount of disk blocks they actually take. If there is a block that is totally empty, it doesn't use up a disk block even though it shows up in the file size.
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