an interface for filesystem preallocation that doesn't suck?

[Eric Sandeen]

James Ralston wrote:

> I intend to start filing bugs against anything I can find that doesn't
> use fallocate(), yes.  But I needed a better implementation to suggest
> than posix_fallocate().

Cool.  Feel free to cc: me on them?

FWIW transmission already can do it though it requires some
undocumented(?) configuration.

It also gives you the choice of posix_fallocate(), or not.   It'd be
nice if you could say "fallocate if you've got it; but no
posix_fallocate, thanks"

-Eric