Filesystems can avoid fragmentation if they know how large files will be.
This library provides a wrapper for the fallocate() syscall (like glibc-2.10+), but also knows the xfs/ocfs2 ioctl and provides fallbacks better than posix_fallocate().

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Operating Systems

Linux

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Developers

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C File Systems, C Libraries

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2009-08-04