On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 06:17 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I do know that for instance some bittorrent clients (Vuze -formerly > azureus comes to mind) allocate the full size of the file being > retrieved, then starts populating (writing) segments as those are > downloaded, but I never knew if the file creation call was a single > one or it actually consisted of the file creation call first, and then > a write of the x gigabytes of zeroes...
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