On 2009-04-02 at 17:00-0500 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Ralston wrote: > > > [I]s 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 Ah, that's the ticket (no pun intended). > it'd be great if we could get that into F11... The rawhide glibc has it, but I'm not sure if it made the cut for the beta. I'll test later. > BTW, ext4, xfs, btrfs, and ocfs2 all support ->fallocate. Yup. On 2009-04-03 at 03:52+0530 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Shouldn't we getting the new glibc and file RFE's against RPM, the > torrent clients etc? I intend to start filing bugs against anything I can find that doesn't use fallocate(), yes. But I needed a better implementation to suggest than posix_fallocate(). James -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
