On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:36 AM, funny_falcon <funny.fal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fallocate is prooved to be useful when you are dealing with huge > amount of ondisk data. > Especially when you need to separately grow hundreds of thousand > files, and then be sure it doesn't lead to huge fragmentation.
Sorry if I was unclear but I'm asking about specific use cases, i.e. what are _you_ going to use it for? Requests for obscure features come up regularly. The conversation usually goes something like this: "Hey, can you add support for X?" "Sure. What is X good for?" "Oh, it's absolutely essential when you <long list of reasons>." "Duly noted. What are you building that you need X?" "Um, nothing. But I read about it on Hacker News and it sounded really cool." (I'm only half-joking, sadly.) Back on topic, fallocate() is a Linux-ism that we can only partially emulate on other platforms. Unless you can present some really compelling reasons why it should be part of core libuv / node.js, I will probably tell you to implement it as an add-on. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
