The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part III)

The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part III)

Posted Jul 6, 2006 11:45 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part III)

Another technique is the POSIX fallocate() function, which tells the file system to allocate N bytes of disk space for this file, which is useful for programs like tar and package managers which know exactly how large a file will be.

There is an other class of applications that know the file size beforehand - download managers, FTP clients, browsers, P2P tools, etc. that get the file size from the network protocol.

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