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Re: howto preallocate to minimize fragmentation

from [Stewart Smith] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: howto preallocate to minimize fragmentation
From: Stewart Smith <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:10:00 +1000
Cc: Ying-Hung Chen <ying@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Ho <andrewho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:45 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> something like this:
>          err = xfsctl(argv[1], fd, XFS_IOC_RESVSP64, &fl);

Are we going to see this be part of posix_fallocate in glibc any time
soon? The patch would be fairly trivial and then let application
programmers use a standard interface that has a nice fallback in case of
non-XFS file systems.
-- 
Stewart Smith (stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
http://www.flamingspork.com/

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