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In UNIX if you want to prepend a single byte to the start of a file you have to rewrite the entire file. This also applies to making changes in the middle of a file, but you only have to rewrite what comes after. What a terribly inefficient operating system. The filesystems in the Linux kernel also suffer from this braindamage it inherited from UNIX.

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