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Re: Problem copying files with holes to msdos file system

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: Problem copying files with holes to msdos file system
Date: Saturday, October 24, 1992 - 5:52 am

You are right: older versions of the msdos fs have problems with holes

in files.  The easy solution is to upgrade: 0.98.x shouldn't have this


This one too seems to be gone: I just copied over 1M+ files with 'mv' to

check it out, and it doesn't happen for me.  Upgrade time. 


                Linus
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