* TODO add Linux fallocate support
@ 2015-10-05 11:53 Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2015-10-05 11:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sleepy-penguin
posix_fallocate may exist, but we should have Linux kernel fallocate
support too, for reasons described in this patch:
http://mid.gmane.org/560E0567.7040204@redhat.com
TL;DR: emulating fallocate in userspace without kernel
support is racy, not merely inefficient.
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