Eric Sandeen wrote:
Now that we have ext4 as the new default filesystem, it'd be nice
if we
can get more applications to take advantage of some of the features.
[snip]
Only a few applications are taking advantage of [preallocation] so
far,
in part because it's new.
And in part because the compatibility issues are a pain. If a compiled
binary app uses fallocate(), then the app requires glibc >= 2.9.90.
fallocate() is not an exported symbol in glibc-2.9. The app won't run
on Fedora 10, or almost anything except Fedora 11, until it is re-compiled
to avoid calling fallocate().
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