Anthony Accioly on Nostr: It does allocate exactly that space much upfront if the file system doesn't support ...
It does allocate exactly that space much upfront if the file system doesn't support sparse files as well as on certain CPU architectures. I've managed to reproduced the issue myself. macOS itself (which supports sparse files) also displays 275GB file sizes although, unlike on Windows, on macOS the files don't take that much space upfront for real.
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