On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:44:07PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > James Ralston wrote: > > > 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(). > > Cool. Feel free to cc: me on them? > > FWIW transmission already can do it though it requires some > undocumented(?) configuration. > > It also gives you the choice of posix_fallocate(), or not. It'd be > nice if you could say "fallocate if you've got it; but no > posix_fallocate, thanks" I just wrote a new program that uses posix_fallocate to allocate large files (of zeroes). Should I change it to use fallocate? What's the recommended code snippet / autoconf configuration? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
