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Re: posix_fallocate



On Nov 17,  1:15pm, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: posix_fallocate

| ps: I have not examined the FreeBSD implementation - if they've done it the
| hard, safe, way, and worked out all the potential kinks, and if it doesn't
| depend too much upon other aspects of their I/O system implementation (like
| whatever they have to make softdeps work) then perhaps copying that might be
| feasible -- if the demand for this really exists, and it isn't being requested
| just because it is in the spec and NetBSD is lacking it.

>From the cursory look at it, they just write.

christos


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