Creating a file with $SIZE
Marco Mariani
marco at sferacarta.com
Wed Mar 12 12:44:32 EDT 2008
Robert Bossy wrote:
> Indeed! Maybe the best choice for chunksize would be the file's buffer
> size... I won't search the doc how to get the file's buffer size because
> I'm too cool to use that function and prefer the seek() option since
> it's lighning fast regardless the size of the file and it takes near to
> zero memory.
And makes a hole in the file, I suppose, hence the fragmentation.
The OP explicitly asked for an uncompressed file.
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