* Pádraig Brady (p...@draigbrady.com) [20120511 17:46]:
> This feature is already under consideration.
> See the comments at: http://bugs.gnu.org/9500
FWIW, SUSE patches coreutils (patch attached) to use fallocate when
sparse=never or non-sparse files with sparse=auto (!make_holes in
copy.c(copy_
Hi,
On Fri, May 11, 2012 16:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 05/11/2012 04:03 PM, Mark wrote:
>> Here's a patch for cp which adds a new --preallocate option. When
>> specified, cp allocates disk space for the destination file before
>> ...
>>
>> To-do list:
>> - Add --preallocate option to mv as wel
On 05/11/2012 04:03 PM, Mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a patch for cp which adds a new --preallocate option. When
> specified, cp allocates disk space for the destination file before writing
> data. It uses fallocate() with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE on Linux, falling back
> to posix_fallocate() if that fai
On 05/11/2012 04:03 PM, Mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a patch for cp which adds a new --preallocate option. When
> specified, cp allocates disk space for the destination file before writing
> data. It uses fallocate() with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE on Linux, falling back
> to posix_fallocate() if that fa
Hi,
Here's a patch for cp which adds a new --preallocate option. When
specified, cp allocates disk space for the destination file before writing
data. It uses fallocate() with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE on Linux, falling back
to posix_fallocate() if that fails.
Benefits of preallocation:
- Disk fragmen
