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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:26:37 +0100
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Test files being created twice as large as requested (Win7)
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On 16/08/2012 04:34, Greg Sullivan wrote:
> fio seems to be creating test files that are twice as large as
> requested.

The problem is that posix_fallocate isn't resetting the file pointer, so 
writes start at the end of the file.
I'll look over the Windows code to make sure there aren't any similar 
problems and create a new build.

-- 
Bruce Cran