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by notepad0x90 703 days ago
it isn't filled with zeroes, why are people saying that?
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nubinetwork 703 days ago
Some people on twitter and mastodon were saying that, but they also said the file's contents weren't identical across machines... chances are the zeroed-out files were preallocated and not written to because the system crashed.
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kchr 703 days ago
Some comments theorise that the NUL-file was deployed to fix the issue with the corrupt file that caused the crashes.
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