Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Robin Farine]

>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <address@hidden> writes:

    Florian> Hans Reiser once told me that they won't overwrite unused
    Florian> disk space with zeros, even when it might become visible
    Florian> using mmap() -- for performance reasons.

I don't follow you. What do mean by "unused disk space becoming
visible using mmap()"? mmap() applied to a regular file can only
access the area corresponding to the contents of the file, and thus it
cannot access unused disk space, no?

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rnf