On 14 Apr 2000, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> int posix_fallocate (int fd, off_t offset, size_t len)
> The purpose of the function is to allocate enough storage so that
> future writes to the file in the range [offset,offset+len] cannot fail
> because the storage device has no room.
Isn't it possible to just seek to offset+len and write a null byte
there? I thought (but I really don't know for sure) that would allocate
the space needed on the filesystem, and with some "sparse" file
optimalisation, this would be real quick on ext2.
Am I right/wrong?
Met vriendelijke groet,
Guus Sliepen.
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