James Ralston wrote: > If the latter, is there an interface for fallocate() that doesn't have > quite as much FAIL as posix_fallocate()? yes, plain ol' fallocate(2), I think: #include <linux/falloc.h> long fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len); but you need a very recent glibc to get it: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7083#c1 it'd be great if we could get that into F11... BTW, ext4, xfs, btrfs, and ocfs2 all support ->fallocate. -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list