Re: How to reserve disk space in XFS to make the blocks over many files continuous?

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> > My question is, how can I guarantee the file system blocks over files
> > continuous? Thanks for your time and appreciate your answer.
> 
> You can't, directly. 

We needed to do this so I added code to swapext to support transferring
leading blocks from one (preallocated single extent) file to another
empty file. It's pretty straightforward but perhaps too special case for
general consumption.

-- 
Roger Willcocks <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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