[uae] Re: Will there be a upcoming E-UAE release?

  • From: Toni Wilen <twilen@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:18:24 +0200

- dynamic size hardfile support (latest beta of WinUAE has this feature)
What does that mean, exactly?  I don't suppose AmigaOS supports online
resizing of filesystems?
There are disk image formats that store only non-empty sectors - empty
sectors does not occupy space on a host OS disk.

In theory that doesn't really need application support on Unix/Linux,
since the host filesystem supports sparse files by default.

So does Windows but point is to be able to transfer hardfiles without losing "sparseness" and/or needing to compress it. (USB sticks generally are FAT and it won't have sparse file support for example)



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