[ale] file size limit?

[phasefx at magusaptus.com (Jason Etheridge)]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> That appears to be a magic property of JFS.  All the other limit their
> files to a size smaller than the filesystem as a whole.  I wonder how
> they do it?

I wonder if it has anything to do making files with "holes" in them? 
That's something I vaguely remember you being able to do in Unix with 
lseek.  Basically, such a file will look larger than it really is on 
disk and any data read from the "hole" will come out as nulls.

-- Jason