Matej Cepl wrote: > OK, another turn around of fixes. This is just the last patch, > whole branch is available at > http://github.com/mcepl/coreutils/tree/truncate-fallocate (repo > URL is git://github.com/mcepl/coreutils.git). > > One note about this patch is that I have unsuccesfully tried to > use @bindir@ to have the script independent for the location of > truncate binary -- unfortunately I haven't managed to persuade > autofoo to expand @bindir@ completely, so I have finished with > ${exec_prefix}/bin which is useless. I have now in the patch > temporary /usr/bin/truncate, but I am turning myself towards > stand that user should just have truncate executable in $PATH and > to consider installation where mere truncate doesn't work as > broken. > > What do you think?
I noticed another thread with more info about fallocate: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-April/msg00110.html That got me thinking about whether we should use fallocate() if available in cp etc. so ext4 etc. can allocate optimally? cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
