Pádraig Brady wrote:
Also do we always know how much to fallocate?
Not if we're using compression on the temporaries, no.
I think a patch along these lines could be worthwhile, if it was simple
and if it actually worked (the current one doesn't). Something along
the following lines, say. When multiple -T options are specified (-T
FOO, -T FOP, -T FOQ, ...) and one of them runs out of disk space when
creating a temporary file FOO/BAR, 'sort' stops creating files in FOO
(effectively removing FOO from the option list) creates a file FOP/BAR
instead, and redoes the process (whatever it was) that sent output to
FOO/BAR, sending the output to FOP/BAR this time.
I don't have the energy right now to write that, but if someone else
wrote it I'd review it.
