On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:58:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> truncate(1) is just a handy userspace interface to truncate(2). Making
> it do anything else is just confusing well-defined interfaces &
> semantics, imho.
Yes.
> I guess I don't -really- care if "truncate" grows an "--allocate"
> option, but I'd still like to see a nice "fallocate" in util-linux-ng ;)
Is it problem to add the "fallocate" command to coreutils rather than
introduce "truncate --allocate"?
"truncate --allocate" really sounds like dry water or green SUV...
Karel
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