Jeff Vian wrote:
It would surprise me if rpm did not know that and be able to reserve
space for the file to be placed as soon as each file begins to be
extracted. Especially since rpm (some versions at least) does a check of
the file it extracts to verify it is intact.
There is no mechanism for requesting that space be reserved for a file.
The ext2/ext3 file system code does pre-allocate some number of blocks
when new space is needed to accommodate a write(), and that reduces the
liklihood of tiny fragments. Beyond that, there is simply no way to
do what you suggest.
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