On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 06:17 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
I do know that for instance some bittorrent clients (Vuze -formerly
azureus comes to mind) allocate the full size of the file being
retrieved, then starts populating (writing) segments as those are
downloaded, but I never knew if the file creation call was a single
one or it actually consisted of the file creation call first, and then
a write of the x gigabytes of zeroes...
You probably want to research into "sparse files."
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