Karel Zak wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:27:57PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> I was thinking the new fallocate util would have the >> same options as the existing truncate util. >> I.E. -n or -o would not be needed or supportable in all situations. >> If you think that users would need those, then I suggest >> adding the linux specific fallocate util to util-linux-ng, >> and we'll add the more generic `truncate --allocate` >> (or separate command) to coreutils. > > So.. what is our final conclusion? The Linux specific fallocate(1) in > util-linux-ng, right? Everyone agrees?
If others agree that a util is required to expose the linux specific fallocate() functionality, in addition to a more generic util to allocate space that would fallocate() if available, then yes it should go in util-linux-ng. cheers, Pádraig.
