Managing sparse files on NTFS

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:17:10 +0200

Hello Shinguz,

NTFS is sparse file-capable too. However there is no tools to deal with it in convenient way. I have written one. Check the “SparseChecker” (http://www.opalapps.com/sparse_checker/sparse_checker.html). Current version is free.

I guess my post is relevant here because MySQL is available for Windows too. And for huge preallocated database files sparse regions (regions full of continuous zeroes) is a known problem, as well as disk and memory images for virtual machines and preallocated download manager’s files (pending downloads).

Best regards, Oleh

P.S. It would be interesting and valuable to hear your proffesional opinion about the SparseChecker as well as if it makes sense to port it to Linux.

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Managing sparse files on NTFS