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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by sp332 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @05:06PM (#7880443)
That's assuming you already have a file and know how big it should be. Or does it take the whole space for one file, and every program on the computer shares the space?
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by colanderman on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @07:45PM (#7881081)
Files can be both sparsely and dynamically allocated.
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