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Apple has "sparse bundles" but not sparse files?
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Backstory: I use a Mac (10.6.4), and to this day when I download a torrent using Vuze, no matter what configuration I try Vuze allocates space for the entire file before it starts downloading said file. For a long time, a quick google led me to believe it was a Vuze bug, but after years have passed…
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It's because the sparseness is handled at a different level of abstraction for a sparse image vs. a sparse file. If you're storing a file "directly" on disk, the filesystem (e.g. HFS+) handles mapping the sequence of bytes that make up the file into…
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