Re: history file size [SUMMARY OF RESPONSES]

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 23:49

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In article <JV.90Feb17152452@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
> 1. All kinds of people explained me the nature of dbm files (sparse
>    files). Nevertheless, the "more than 8 Mb" were *REAL* Mbytes
>    occupied.

Unfortunately, much of the sparseness is sufficiently fine-grained that
the file system can't exploit it very well, especially if the filesystem's
block size is large.
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