On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
wrote:
> fallocate() is linux specific and will preallocate the space on disk for
> the entire file.
>
Check out the preallocate.diff in the rsync patches -- it adds an option
that lets you choose to preallocate (you can browse the patch
fallocate() is linux specific and will preallocate the space on disk for
the entire file. FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE does not change the filesize as
reported by stat(). An aborted transfer will have preallocated disk space
which is not "visible" via stat(). This shouldn't matter unless the user
does compl
