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Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Posted Mar 14, 2009 4:19 UTC (Sat) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793)
In reply to: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem by tialaramex
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

The fallocate() man page says it's only supported since kernel 2.6.23. That is a VERY recent kernel version. In a year or two maybe I will look at that page again. For now it's just too soon to care.


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