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." -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org