Re: Things to do this week instead of arguing about mixers

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:42:32PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> If you didn't want to fall back to the slow behavior on ext3, you might
> consider only using fallocate() if it's there, rather than
> posix_fallocate().

Does this imply there's a fast way to allocate a non-sparse
zero-filled file on ext3?!?

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat  http://et.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many
powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top