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LeoPanthera on June 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who Needs Git When You Got ZFS? (2013)

Huh. I didn't know that. Does it work on any filesystem?

bashinator on June 11, 2014 | [–]

I believe the filesystem needs "sparse file" support.

panzi on June 11, 2014 | [–]

I think about anything newer than fat32 supports sparse files.

dasmoth on June 11, 2014 | [–]

The FS people today are likely to come across which doesn't support them is HFS+.

e12e on June 11, 2014 | | [–]

Afaik neither exFat or fat32 support it -- and they are still(?) popular for flash sticks and/or drives that needs to be shared between OS'.

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