Re: posix_fallocate

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> I think the chief question at this level is whether to support the
> "keep the length" flag for fallocate, fdiscard, both, or neither. The
> linux fallocate uses this to allow allocating blocks past EOF, which
> strikes me as nuts; 

Why is it bad?

I am interested to port software, and of course it uses
FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE and FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE...

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