On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:44:07PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
James Ralston wrote:
> I intend to start filing bugs against anything I can find that doesn't
> use fallocate(), yes. But I needed a better implementation to suggest
> than posix_fallocate().
Cool. Feel free to cc: me on them?
FWIW transmission already can do it though it requires some
undocumented(?) configuration.
It also gives you the choice of posix_fallocate(), or not. It'd be
nice if you could say "fallocate if you've got it; but no
posix_fallocate, thanks"
I just wrote a new program that uses posix_fallocate to allocate large
files (of zeroes). Should I change it to use fallocate? What's the
recommended code snippet / autoconf configuration?
Rich.
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