Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes:
> Hmm, one of your points above got me thinking.
> Might fallocate() fail to allocate an extent with ENOSPC,
> but there could be fragmented space available to write()?
> That would scupper benefit (2) above :(
> I'll ask [email protected]
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
fallocate() in no way garanties that the space is continious. Any
filesystem that is halfway smart will use a continious chunk if
possible. But it should only fail if there is really no space, no matter
how fragmented, left.
MfG
Goswin
