RE: [boost] [filesystem] large file support test added

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-10 10:49:29

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
<snip> 
> Normally we would have a regression test that identifies the systems
> which fail. But we don't test large file support directly because to
> do so would be a burden on those who run the regression tests; such
> tests would chew up gigabytes of disk space and might also be very
> slow.
<snip>

why so?  Unix file-systems support sparse files, as does NTFS.