Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: > ... > > I thought a little about this today. > > Nice description of the issues.
BTW: there was a discussion recently about the fallocate utility of util-linux, e.g. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/5045 Maybe looking into fallocate.c can help. Berny
