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diff --git a/hurd/libstore/zero_store.mdwn b/hurd/libstore/zero_store.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 4c53ab56..00000000 --- a/hurd/libstore/zero_store.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="zero store: empty block device"]] - -A *zero* store is what `/dev/zero` is (always reads zeros), the setting on -`/dev/zero` gives no name (i.e. size) and the default size is the maximum -possible. The only meaning of the size of a *zero* is what `st_size` will -report and what offsets it will let you try to read or write from--there is -never any data associated with a *zero* store. (The code for this is in -`libstore/zero.c`.) |