Subject: RE: bug#9500: [PATCH]: use posix_fallocate where supported

From: "Voelker, Bernhard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:56:41 +0100

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> ...
> > I thought a little about this today.
> 
> Nice description of the issues.

BTW: there was a discussion recently about the
fallocate utility of util-linux, e.g.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/5045
Maybe looking into fallocate.c can help.

Berny