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cp: use posix_fallocate where supported

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From: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: "9500 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <9500 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Kelly Anderson <kelly <at> silka.with-linux.com>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: bug#9500: [PATCH]: use posix_fallocate where supported
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

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