On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:45:23PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > These patches introduce safezero() to allocate chunks for a file and > write zeroes to them. > > Not yet ready for merge; I don't understand the configure system yet > and don't know how to test for posix_fallocate() availability. In this case it'll be pretty easy, add to configure.in: AC_CHECK_FUNCS([posix_fallocate()]) And then in the source code you can #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE ... #else ... #endif Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list