lastlog devours universe

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:37:32PM -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> I don't really see that as being unreasonable. However, I don't have a 
> lot of experience with using tar to backup though. In your experience, 
> is there a reason not to use --sparse in most occasions?

It's probably somewhat slower to have to check if special handling is
needed.

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