Re: Create Big size dummy File..

From: Duane Bozarth (dp_bozarth_at_swko.dot.net)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:40:35 -0500

Bob Butler wrote:
>
> "J French" <erewhon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:40d7d371.87498815@news.btclick.com
> <cut>
> > The stuff before is whatever garbage was on the disk.
>
> The stuff before should all be nulls

Why--what makes you think/say that? If it were to write all nulls (or
anything, for that matter) it would take the full time to write to disk
rather than simply creating the links and whatever data (if any) in the
actual i/o list.

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