lastlog devours universe

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:09 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> 
> If the change that causes /var/log/lastlog to be a huge sparse file is
> accepted, it is _imperative_ that all common backup tools be updated
> to
> support sparse by default.  Actually, I don't understand why this
> isn't the
> default anyway, except that it is a tiny bit slower (on Linux systems
> it
> shouldn't be significantly slower).
> 

You're going to have to tell me what 'default' is.  The backup tools I
use don't do anything by default except give me a usage statement....

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