computer science, a sparse file is a type of computer file that attempts to use file system space more efficiently when the file itself is partially empty...

In numerical analysis and scientific computing, a sparse matrix or sparse array is a matrix in which most of the elements are zero. There is no strict...

control lists (ACLs); filesystem encryption; transparent compression; sparse files; file system journaling and volume shadow copy, a feature that allows backups...

using the same format for the file data itself, and relocating the metadata into empty space, in some cases using sparse file support. Migration has the...

A sparse image is a type of disk image file used on macOS that grows in size as the user adds data to the image, taking up only as much disk space as...

complexity theory Sparse matrix, in numerical analysis, a matrix populated primarily with zeros Sparse file, a computer file mostly empty Sparse network, a network...

Sparse is a computer software tool designed to find possible coding faults in the Linux kernel. Unlike other such tools, this static analysis tool was...

for reverse-path forwarding.: 56–57  There are four variants of PIM: PIM Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) explicitly builds unidirectional shared trees rooted at a...

and prints the contents of the last login log file, /var/log/lastlog (which is a usually a very sparse file), including the login name, port, and last login...

for generating qcow2 files to avoid the use of sparse file support. One of the main characteristics of qcow disk images is that files with this format can...

link. Offline (O): The file data is physically moved to offline storage (Remote Storage). Sparse (P): The file is a sparse file, i.e., its contents are...

external descriptor file, while others embed it with the main data in a single file. A flat image allocates space ahead of time while a sparse image grows as...

Harwell-Boeing file format (also known as HB format [citation needed]) is a file format designed to store information [citation needed] used to describe sparse matrices...

features including: server-side clone and copy, application I/O advise, sparse files, space reservation, application data block (ADB), labeled NFS with sec_label...

of the HFS allocation file as bad blocks. Notable among file systems used for Unix systems, HFS Plus does not support sparse files. There are nine structures...

and file timestamps Support for Symbolic links and device files Deeper directory hierarchy (more than 8 levels) Efficient storage of sparse files The...

allowing both original and converted file systems to be accessed at the same time. Deleting this sparse file frees up the space and makes the conversion...

Desktop entry on Linux Desktop environments Harwell-Boeing – a file format designed to store sparse matrices MML – MathML – Mathematical Markup Language ODF...

data file. In clustered indices with duplicate keys, the dense index points to the first record with that key. A sparse index in databases is a file with...

disk quotas (provided by QuotaAdvisor), file-system-level encryption, sparse files and reparse points. Sparse files allow for the efficient storage of data...

sectors on the volume. Sparse files can be larger than the file system size, even though they can't contain more data. NSS allows files to have multiple names...

are filled with zeros, and then diskpart can use the NTFS feature of sparse files to eliminate runs of zeros in the VHD[citation needed]. The virtual machine...

the file will be written in a contiguous group of blocks, reducing fragmentation problems and increasing performance. XFS provides a 64-bit sparse address...

startup volume. The operating system uses an encrypted sparse disk image (a large single file) to present a volume for the home directory. Mac OS X 10...

These methods center around the encoding of text as either dense or sparse vectors. Sparse vectors, used to encode the identity of a word, are typically dictionary...

underlying memory-mapped file. On a modern filesystem with sparse file support, this helps minimise actual disk usage. The file format of LMDB is, unlike...

utility which performs in-place conversion between any two file systems with sparse file support Gentoo Forum Link – Discussion on ReiserFS fragmentation...

to clarify and remove ambiguity. It also added support for sparse files; persistent file identifiers; virtual extended attributes for filesystem metadata...

M 12/Tiber (1945) – Italy, political and military liaison mission; a sparse file suggests activity in Liguria and Genoa. Macduff (1943) – Belgium, May...

a file really filled with only zero bytes, many file systems also support the creation of sparse files, which return zeros upon reading but use less actual...